Improving Antibiotic Activity against Wound Pathogens with Manuka Honey In Vitro

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Jenkins, Rowena ^a   Cooper, Rose ^a  

^a CARDIFF METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFALEXIN; CEFTIZOXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; KANAMYCIN; MANUKA HONEY; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN; TAZOBACTAM; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG POTENTIATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; WOUND INFECTION;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; HONEY; HUMANS; LEPTOSPERMUM; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; WOUND INFECTION;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 84866883557     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045600     Document Type: Article

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