Antimicrobial activity and rutin identification of honey produced by the stingless bee Melipona compressipes manaosensis and commercial honey

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Pimentel, Renah Boanerges de Queiroz ^a   da Costa, Cristovão Alves ^b   Albuquerque, Patrícia Melchionna ^a   Junior, Sergio Duvoisin ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DO AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antibacterial activity; Apis sp; Flavonoids; Honey; HPLC; Melipona sp; Stingless bee

Indexed keywords

AGAR; APIGENIN; FLAVONOID; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; RUTOSIDE;

AGAR DIFFUSION; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; APIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BROTH DILUTION; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC BACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HONEY; KLEBSIELLA; LIQUID LIQUID EXTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEUS VULGARIS; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI; SEASON; SHIGELLA SONNEI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STINGLESS BEE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; APITHERAPY; BEES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HONEY; PHENOLS; RUTIN;

EID: 84879468357     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-13-151     Document Type: Article

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