Anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial profiles of Scilla nervosa (Burch.) Jessop (Hyacinthaceae)

South African Journal of Science

Volumn 107, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages

  Du Toit, Karen ^a   Kweyama, Audrey ^a   Bodenstein, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM; BIOACTIVITY; BIOASSAY; ETHNOBOTANY; FRACTIONATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; MEDICINAL PLANT; METHANOL; MONOCOTYLEDON; PATHOGEN; PLANT EXTRACT; YEAST;

SOUTH AFRICA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDA ALBICANS; HYACINTHACEAE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; SCHIZOCARPHUS NERVOSUS; SCILLA NERVOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 79956090071     PISSN: 00382353     EISSN: 19967489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4102/sajs.v107i5/6.259     Document Type: Article

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