Assessment of antioxidant, antibacterial, antimycobacterial, and antifungal activities of some plants used as folk remedies in Turkey against dermatophytes and yeast-like fungi

Turkish Journal of Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 672-686

  Deliorman Orhan, Didem ^a   Özçelik, Berrin ^a   Hoşbaş, Sanem ^a   Vural, Mecit ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial activity; Antioxidant activity; Total phenolic content

Indexed keywords

ARTHRODERMATACEAE; CREPIS; CREPIS FOETIDA; EPIDERMOPHYTON FLOCCOSUM; FUNGI; HEDERA; HEDERA HELIX; ISSATCHENKIA ORIENTALIS; LANTANA CAMARA; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEGIBACTERIA; NEPETA; NEPETA ITALICA; ONONIS SPINOSA; POSIBACTERIA; PRIMULA VULGARIS; PRIMULACEAE; ROSA CANINA; RUBUS; RUBUS SANCTUS; SALVIA; SALVIA FRUTICOSA; SALVIA VERTICILLATA; TEUCRIUM; TEUCRIUM POLIUM; TRICHOPHYTON RUBRUM; URTICA DIOICA;

EID: 84868593940     PISSN: 13000152     EISSN: 13036092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3906/biy-1203-33     Document Type: Article

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