Antibacterial activities of selected Cameroonian spices and their synergistic effects with antibiotics against multidrug-resistant phenotypes

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Fankam, Aimé G ^a   Kuete, Victor ^a   Voukeng, Igor K ^a   Kuiate, Jules R ^a   Pages, Jean Marie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DSCHANG   (Cameroon)

^b Aix Marseille University   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AFRAMOMUM CITRATUM EXTRACT; ALKALOID; ANTHOCYANIN; ANTHRAQUINONE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BEILSCHMIEDIA CINNAMOMEA EXTRACT; CEFEPIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; DICHROSTACHYS GLOMERATA EXTRACT; ECHINOPS GIGANTEUS EXTRACT; ERYTHROMYCIN; FAGARA XANTHOXYLOIDES EXTRACT; METHANOL; MONDIA WHITEI EXTRACT; NORFLOXACIN; OLAX SUBSCORPIOIDEA EXTRACT; PHENOL; PIPER CAPENSE EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; SAPONIN; SCORODOPHLOEUS ZENKERI EXTRACT; SOLANUM MELONGENA EXTRACT; STEROL; STREPTOMYCIN; TANNIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRITERPENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; XYLOPIA AETHIOPICA EXTRACT;

AFRAMOMUM CITRATUM; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; AUBERGINE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BARK; BEILSCHMIEDIA CINNAMOMEA; BROTH DILUTION; CAMEROON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICHROSTACHYS GLOMERATA; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG POTENTIATION; ECHINOPS GIGANTEUS; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVALUATION; FAGARA ZANTHOXYLOIDES; FRUIT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MONDIA WHITEI; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; OLAX SUBSCORPIOIDEA; PHENOTYPE; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PIPER CAPENSE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT SEED; PROVIDENCIA STUARTII; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RHIZOME; SCORODOPHLOEUS ZENKERI; SPICE; XYLOPIA AETHIOPICA; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INTERACTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CAMEROON; DRUG INTERACTIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SPICES;

EID: 80055034440     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-11-104     Document Type: Article

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