Some southern African plant species used to treat helminth infections in ethnoveterinary medicine have excellent antifungal activities

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Adamu, Mathew ^a,b   Naidoo, Vinasan ^a   Eloff, Jacobus N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Anthelmintic; Antifungal; Aspergillus; Candida; Cryptococcus; Immune compromised patients; Plant extract; Selectivity; Therapeutic index

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; PLANT EXTRACT;

ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; APODYTES DIMIDIATA; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASTERACEAE; BRACHYLAENA DISCOLOR; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL ASSAY; CLAUSENA; CLAUSENA ANISATA; CLERODENDRUM; CLERODENDRUM GLABRUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CYATHEA DREGEI; CYTOTOXICITY; HELMINTHIASIS; HETEROMORPHA TRIFOLIATA; INDIGOFERA FRUTESCENS; LEGUME; LEUCOSIDEA SERICEA; MAESA LANCEOLATA; MEDICINAL PLANT; MELIA AZEDARACH; MILLETIA GRANDIS; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; ROSACEAE; SOUTH AFRICA; STRYCHNOS; STRYCHNOS MITIS; VETERINARY MEDICINE; ZANTHOXYLUM; ZANTHOXYLUM CAPENSE;

EID: 84868311622     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-12-213     Document Type: Article

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