Antimicrobial activity of carvacrol: Current progress and future prospectives

Recent Patents on Anti-Infective Drug Discovery

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 28-35

  Nostro, Antonia ^a   Papalia, Teresa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action mechanism; Antimicrobial activity; Carvacrol; Current progress; Monoterpenic phenol; Patents

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CALCIUM ALGINATE; CARVACROL; CHITOSAN; CINNAMALDEHYDE; ESSENTIAL OIL; EUGENOL; FLUCONAZOLE; LACTIC ACID; LIPOSOME; MENTHOL; METHYLCELLULOSE; MONTMORILLONITE; NALIDIXIC ACID; NISIN; NYSTATIN; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; POLYETHYLENE; SALICYLALDEHYDE; SORBATE POTASSIUM; TETRACYCLINE; THYME OIL; THYMOL;

ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; CANDIDIASIS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; DRUG STRUCTURE; FOOD PACKAGING; FOOD PRESERVATION; FOOD SPOILAGE; HUMAN; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PATENT; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PERIODONTITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; THRUSH; TINEA PEDIS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; FUNGI; HUMANS; MONOTERPENES; MYCOSES;

EID: 84858319925     PISSN: 1574891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157489112799829684     Document Type: Review

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