Dengue fever treatment with Carica papaya leaves extracts

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 330-333

  Ahmad, Nisar ^a,b   Fazal, Hina ^a,c   Ayaz, Muhammad ^d   Abbasi, Bilal Haider ^a   Mohammad, Ijaz ^e   Fazal, Lubna ^e  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b NUCLEAR INSTITUTE FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE NIFA   (Pakistan)

^c PAKISTAN COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH   (Pakistan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PESHAWAR   (Pakistan)

^e LADY READING HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Carica papaya; Dengue fever; Leaves extracts; Platelets; Potential activity

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CARICA PAPAYA EXTRACT; WATER; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; PLANT EXTRACT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY PAIN; CASE REPORT; DENGUE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENCY; DYSPNEA; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; EVENING DOSAGE; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSECT BITE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MORNING DOSAGE; MOSQUITO; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PAIN; PAPAYA; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIVERING; SKIN REDNESS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; VOMITING; CARICA; CHEMISTRY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CARICA; DENGUE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES; PLATELET COUNT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79960256318     PISSN: 22211691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2221-1691(11)60055-5     Document Type: Article

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