Are there feasible prospects for manuka honey as an alternative to conventional antimicrobials?

Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 623-625

  Cooper, Rose ^a   Jenkins, Rowena ^a  

^a CARDIFF METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

antibiotic resistance; manuka honey; MRSA; wounds

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN; NATURAL PRODUCT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALLOPATHY; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHRONIC WOUND; DIABETIC FOOT; DOWN REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FOOT ULCER; GROWTH INHIBITION; HONEY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INFECTION PREVENTION; LEG ULCER; LEPTOSPERMUM; LEPTOSPERMUM SCOPARIUM; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NECTAR; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; WOUND CARE; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE COCCI; HONEY; HUMANS; LEPTOSPERMUM; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84863197610     PISSN: 14787210     EISSN: 17448336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/eri.12.46     Document Type: Review

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