In-vitro antimicrobial activity screening of some ethnoveterinary medicinal plants traditionally used against mastitis, wound and gastrointestinal tract complication in Tigray Region, Ethiopia

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 516-522

  Kalayou, Shewit ^a,c   Haileselassie, Mekonnen ^b   Gebre egziabher, Gebremedhin ^c   Tiku'e, Tsegay ^c   Sahle, Samson ^d   Taddele, Habtamu ^c   Ghezu, Mussie ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b Tigray Regional State Science and Technology Agency   (Ethiopia)

^c MEKELLE UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^d ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Antibacterial activity; Broth dilution methods mastitis; Disc diffusion test; Medicinal plants; Wound and food contaminants

Indexed keywords

ACHYRANTHES ASPERA EXTRACT; CALPURINIA AUREA EXTRACT; CROTON MACROSTACHYS EXTRACT; FICUS CARIA EXTRACT; MOLVI PARVIFLORA EXTRACT; NICOTIANA TABACUM EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; SOLANUM HASTIFOLIUM EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VERNONIA EXTRACT; ZIZIPHUS SPINA EXTRACT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACHYRANTHES ASPERA; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASTERACEAE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CALPURINIA AUREA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROTON; CROTON MACROSTACHYS; DERMATOPHILUS; DISK DIFFUSION; DRUG SCREENING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ETHIOPIA; FICUS; FICUS CARIA; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; IN VITRO STUDY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MASTITIS; MEDICINAL PLANT; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLVI PARVIFLORA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHAMNACEAE; SKIN INJURY; SOLANACEAE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS DYSGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS HYCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS INTERMEDIUS; TOBACCO; VERNONIA; ZIZIPHUS SPINA; ANIMAL; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; VETERINARY;

ACHYRANTHES ASPERA; ASPARAGACEAE; ASTERACEAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CROTON MACROSTACHYS; EUPHORBIACEAE; FABACEAE; FICUS (ANGIOSPERM); MALVACEAE; MORACEAE; NICOTIANA TABACUM; RHAMNACEAE; SOLANACEAE; SOLANUM; VERNONIA; ZIZIPHUS SPINA-CHRISTI;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; ETHIOPIA; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

EID: 84860381700     PISSN: 22211691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2221-1691(12)60088-4     Document Type: Article

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