Use of Asiatic pennywort Centella asiatica aqueous extract as a bath treatment to control columnaris in Nile tilapia

Journal of Aquatic Animal Health

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 14-20

  Rattanachaikunsopon, P ^a   Phumkhachorn, P ^a  

^a UBON RATCHATHANI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGRAPHIS PANICULATA; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CENTELLA ASIATICA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLAVOBACTERIUM COLUMNARE; GARCINIA MANGOSTANA; LYTHRACEAE; OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS; PSIDIUM; PSIDIUM GUAJAVA; PUNICA GRANATUM; SENNA; SENNA ALATA;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CENTELLA ASIATICA EXTRACT; TRITERPENE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FISH DISEASE; FLAVOBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GARCINIA MANGOSTANA; GUAVA; POMEGRANATE; SENNA; TILAPIA;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CASSIA; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FISH DISEASES; FLAVOBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GARCINIA MANGOSTANA; PSIDIUM; PUNICACEAE; TILAPIA; TRITERPENES;

EID: 77954662598     PISSN: 08997659     EISSN: 15488667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/H09-021.1     Document Type: Article

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