Powerful bacterial killing by buckwheat honeys is concentration-dependent, involves complete DNA degradation and requires hydrogen peroxide

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue JUL, 2012, Pages

  Brudzynski, Katrina ^a   Abubaker, Kamal ^a   Wang, Tony ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aminophenyl fluorescein; Bactericidal action; Honey; Hydrogen peroxide; Hydroxylradicals; Killing curves; MBC MIC ratio; MRSA and VRE

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875784802     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00242     Document Type: Article

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