Whats in a name? Can mullein weed beat tb where modern drugs are failing?

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2011, Issue , 2011, Pages

  O'Mahony, Jim M ^a   McCarthy, Eibhlín ^a  

^a Department of Chemistry   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHALCONE; CHROMONE DERIVATIVE; ETHAMBUTOL; GLYCOSIDE; IRIDOID; ISONIAZID; LIGNAN DERIVATIVE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PICROSIDE I; PLANT EXTRACT; POLYPHENOL DERIVATIVE; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; SAPONIN DERIVATIVE; SESQUITERPENE DERIVATIVE; STEROID; TERPENOID DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VERBASCUM THAPSUS EXTRACT;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TUBERCULOSIS; VERBASCUM; VERBASCUM THAPSUS; WEED;

EID: 77958491700     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2011/239237     Document Type: Review

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