The bioactivity of plant extracts against representative bacterial pathogens of the lower respiratory tract

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Bocanegra García, Virgilio ^a   Del Rayo Camacho Corona, María ^b   Ramírez Cabrera, Mánica ^b   Rivera, Gildardo ^a   Garza Gonzlez, Elvira ^b  

^a Universidad Autánoma de Tamaulipas   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE NUEVO LEÓN   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; LARREA; LARREA TRIDENTATA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 77049083694     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-95     Document Type: Article

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