Chemical composition of 8 eucalyptus species' essential oils and the evaluation of their antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral activities

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Elaissi, Ameur ^a   Rouis, Zyed ^a   Salem, Nabil Abid B ^a   Mabrouk, Samia ^c   ben Salem, Youssef ^b   Salah, Karima Bel H ^a   Aouni, Mahjoub ^a   Farhat, Farhat ^a   Chemli, Rachid ^a   Harzallah Skhiri, Fethia ^c   Khouja, Mohamed L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

^b Imuunology   (Tunisia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CARTHAGE   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Antibacterial activity; Antifungal activity; Antiviral activity; Essential oil; Eucalyptus sp.; Hierarchical Cluster Analysis; Principal Components Analysis

Indexed keywords

EUCALYPTUS OIL;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BROTH DILUTION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CYTOTOXICITY; DISK DIFFUSION; EUCALYPTUS; FUNGAL STRAIN; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIA; EUCALYPTUS; FUNGI; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OILS, VOLATILE; PLANT OILS; VIRUSES;

EID: 84862774600     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-12-81     Document Type: Article

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