Thai ethnomedicinal plants as resistant modifying agents for combating Acinetobacter baumannii infections

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Phatthalung, Pinanong N ^a   Chusri, Sasitorn ^a   Voravuthikunchai, Supayang P ^a  

^a PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ALKALOID; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; HOLARRHENA ANTIDYSENTERICA EXTRACT; NOVOBIOCIN; PLANT EXTRACT; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT; PUNICA GRANATUM EXTRACT; QUISQUALIS INDICA EXTRACT; RESERPINE; TANNIN; TERMINALIA BELLIRICA EXTRACT; TERMINALIA CHEBULA EXTRACT; TRITERPENOID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACINETOBACTER INFECTION; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DETERMINATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; HOLARRHENA; HOLARRHENA ANTIDYSENTERICA; MEDICINAL PLANT; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; POMEGRANATE; QUISQUALIS INDICA; TERMINALIA; TERMINALIA BELLIRICA; TERMINALIA CHEBULA; THAILAND; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

EID: 84864960098     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-12-56     Document Type: Article

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