Chemical composition and antibacterial activity of the essential oil of Cordia verbenacea from the Venezuelan Andes

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1119-1122

  Meccia, Gina ^a   Rojas, Luis B ^a   Velasco, Judith ^a   Díaz, Tulia ^a   Usubillaga, Alfredo ^a   Arzola, Juan Carmona ^a   Ramos, Sulymar ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Antibacterial activity; Boraginaceae; Cordia verbenacea; Essential oil composition

Indexed keywords

AZTREONAM; BICYCLOGERMACRENE; CARYOPHYLLENE; CEFTAZIDIME; ESSENTIAL OIL; GENTAMICIN; GERMACRENE D; SULTAMICILLIN; TRICYCLENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BORAGINACEAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORDIA VERBENACEA; DISK DIFFUSION; DISTILLATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT YIELD; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VENEZUELA; ALTITUDE; CHEMISTRY; CORDIA; DRUG EFFECT; ECOSYSTEM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PLANT LEAF; PLANT MORPHOLOGY;

BORAGINACEAE; CORDIA VERBENACEA; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ALTITUDE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; CORDIA; ECOSYSTEM; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OILS, VOLATILE; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT STRUCTURES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VENEZUELA;

EID: 73949157955     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x0900400821     Document Type: Article

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