Antimycobacterial activity of ferutinin alone and in combination with antitubercular drugs against a rapidly growing surrogate of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Natural Product Research

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1142-1149

  Abourashed, Ehab A ^a   Galal, Ahmed M ^b   Shibl, Atef M ^c  

^a CHICAGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Antimycobacterial; Antitubercular drugs; Ferula hermonis; Ferutinin; Potentiation; Rapidly growing mycobacteria; Shirsh El Zallouh

Indexed keywords

8,9 EPOXYJAESCHKEANDIOL 4 HYDROXYBENZOATE; 8,9 EPOXYJAESCHKEANDIOL BENZOATE; ETHIONAMIDE; FERUTININ; ISONIAZID; NATURAL PRODUCT; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGAR DILUTION; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; DRUG POTENTIATION; HYDROLYSIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTITUBERCULAR; BENZOATES; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS; CYCLOHEPTANES; ETHIONAMIDE; FERULA; ISONIAZID; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PARABENS; PLANT ROOTS; RIFAMPIN; SESQUITERPENES; STREPTOMYCIN;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; FERULA HERMONIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 79960483919     PISSN: 14786419     EISSN: 14786427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14786419.2010.481623     Document Type: Article

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