Sensitivity of pathogenic and commensal bacteria from the human colon to essential oils

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 158, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2870-2877

  Thapa, Dinesh ^a   Losa, Riccardo ^b   Zweifel, Béatrice ^b   John Wallace, R ^a  

^a ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b Agolin SA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL OIL; EUGENOL; GERANIOL; NEROLIDOL; THYMOL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CELL MEMBRANE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; COLON; COMMENSAL; COMMENSAL ESCHERICHIA COLI; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAECALIBACTERIUM PRAUSNITZII; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GROWTH INHIBITION; HUMAN; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COLON; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OILS, VOLATILE; PLANT OILS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FAECALIBACTERIUM PRAUSNITZII; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 84868329066     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.061127-0     Document Type: Article

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