Antibacterial activities of essential oils from eight Greek aromatic plants against clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus

Anaerobe

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 399-402

  Alexopoulos, A ^a   Kimbaris, A C ^a   Plessas, S ^a   Mantzourani, I ^a   Theodoridou, I ^a   Stavropoulou, E ^a   Polissiou, M G ^b   Bezirtzoglou, E ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Essential oils; Minimum Inhibitory Concentration; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL OIL; LAVANDULA ANGUSTIFOLIA EXTRACT; MENTHA PULEGIUM EXTRACT; MENTHA SPICATA EXTRACT; OCIMUM BASILICUM EXTRACT; ORIGANUM DICTAMNUS EXTRACT; ORIGANUM VULGARE EXTRACT; PEPPERMINT; ROSMARINUS OFFICINALIS EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; AROMA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BASIL; BROTH DILUTION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISK DIFFUSION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GREECE; HYDRODISTILLATION; LAVANDULA ANGUSTIFOLIA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MENTHA PIPERITA; MENTHA PULEGIUM; MENTHA SPICATA; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; OREGANO; ORIGANUM; ORIGANUM DICTAMNUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROSEMARY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GREECE; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OILS, VOLATILE; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

OCIMUM BASILICUM; ORIGANUM DICTAMNUS; ORIGANUM VULGARE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84655167939     PISSN: 10759964     EISSN: 10958274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2011.03.024     Document Type: Article

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