Thymol and its derivatives as antimicrobial agents

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 823-828

  Kumar, Ajai ^a   Singh, Suriya P ^b   Chhokar, Sudarshan S ^c  

^a Fragrance and Flavour Development Centre   (India)

^b CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^c CCR College   (India)

Author keywords

Ajowan; Antimicrobial activity; Carum copticum; Thymol

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CARUM COPTICUM EXTRACT; TETRACYCLINE; THYMOL; THYMYL 3 NITROBENZOATE; THYMYL 3,3 DIMETHYLACRYLATE; THYMYL 4 NITROBENZOATE; THYMYL CROTONATE; THYMYL LAURATE; THYMYL MYRISTATE; THYMYL O ANISOYLATE; THYMYL P ANISOYLATE; THYMYL PALMITOATE; THYMYL TRITYLATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTHRODERMA GYPSEUM; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BROTH DILUTION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CARAWAY; CARUM COPTICUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DISK DIFFUSION; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG SCREENING; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; EPIDERMOPHYTON FLOCCOSUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL STRAIN; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT SEED; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SPOROTHRIX SCHENCKII; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TRICHOPHYTON RUBRUM; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); TRACHYSPERMUM COPTICUM;

EID: 77954005483     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x0800300528     Document Type: Article

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