Antifungal Properties of Crude Extracts of Five Egyptian Medicinal Plants Against Dermatophytes and Emerging Fungi

Mycopathologia

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 37-46

  Hashem, Mohamed ^a,b  

^a Assiut University   (Egypt)

^b KING KHALID UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Antifungal; Ballota undulate; Dermatophytes; Emerging fungi; GC MS; Paecilomyces lilacinus; SEM

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; PLANT EXTRACT;

ARTHRODERMATACEAE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MIXTURE; EGYPT; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MEDICINAL PLANT; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROSCOPY;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ARTHRODERMATACEAE; COMPLEX MIXTURES; EGYPT; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HYPHAE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROSCOPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA JUDAICA; ARTHRODERMATACEAE; BALLOTA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLEOME; CLEOME AMBLYOCARPA; FUNGI; PAECILOMYCES LILACINUS; PEGANUM HARMALA; TEUCRIUM; TEUCRIUM POLIUM;

EID: 79960570053     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11046-010-9390-6     Document Type: Article

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