Antibacterial and antifungal activity of Senecio inaequidens DC. and Senecio vulgaris L.

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 777-779

  Loizzo, Monica Rosa ^a   Statti, Giancarlo A ^a   Tundis, Rosa ^a   Conforti, Filomena ^a   Bonesi, Marco ^a   Autelitano, Giovanni ^a   Houghton, Peter J ^b   Miljkovic Brake, Ana ^b   Menichini, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antibacterial and antifungal activity; Senecio inaequidens DC; Senecio vulgaris L

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; BUTANOL; CHLOROFORM; DICHLOROMETHANE; HEXANE; METHANOL; PLANT EXTRACT; SENECIO INAEQUIDENS EXTRACT; SENECIO VULGARIS EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ISOLATION; MEDICINAL PLANT; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; SENECIO; SENECIO INAEQUIDENS; SENECIO VULGARIS; TRICHOPHYTON TONSURANS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT COMPONENTS, AERIAL; PLANT EXTRACTS; SENECIO;

SENECIO; SENECIO INAEQUIDENS; SENECIO VULGARIS; TRICHOPHYTON; TRICHOPHYTON TONSURANS;

EID: 8344241204     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.1562     Document Type: Article

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