Extracts of canadian first nations medicinal plants, used as natural products, inhibit neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates with different antibiotic resistance profiles

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 667-671

  Cybulska, Paulina ^a   Thakur, Sidharath D ^b   Foster, Brian C ^a   Scott, Ian M ^a   Leduc, Renée I ^a   Arnason, John T ^a   Dillon, Jo Anne R ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACORUS AMERICANUS EXTRACT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ARCTOSTAPHYLOS UVA URSI EXTRACT; AZITHROMYCIN; BERBERINE; BERBERIS VULGARIS EXTRACT; CIMICIFUGA RACEMOSA EXTRACT; CIPROFLOXACIN; EQUISETUM ARVENSE EXTRACT; GAULTHERIA PROCUMBENS EXTRACT; LEDUM GROENLANDICUM EXTRACT; LEDUM PALUSTRE EXTRACT; NATURAL PRODUCT; OENOTHERA BIENNIS EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; PRUNUS SEROTINA EXTRACT; RHODIOLA ROSEA EXTRACT; ROSAVIN; SALIDROSIDE; SAMBUCUS NIGRA EXTRACT; SPECTINOMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZANTHOXYLUM AMERICANUM EXTRACT;

ACORUS AMERICANUS; AGAR DIFFUSION; AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARCTOSTAPHYLOS UVA URSI; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BERBERIS VULGARIS; CANADA; CIMICIFUGA RACEMOSA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EQUISETUM ARVENSE; EVENING PRIMROSE; GAULTHERIA PROCUMBENS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LEDUM GROENLANDICUM; LEDUM PALUSTRE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PRUNUS SEROTINA; RHODIOLA ROSEA; SAMBUCUS NIGRA; ZANTHOXYLUM AMERICANUM;

EID: 79959640311     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: 15374521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e31820cb166     Document Type: Article

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