Medicinal plants used against typhoid fever in Bamboutos division, western Cameroon

Ethnobotany Research and Applications

Volumn 11, Issue , 2013, Pages 163-174

  Tsobou, Roger ^a   Mapongmetsem, Pierre Marie ^b   Van Damme, Patrick ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DSCHANG   (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NGAOUNDERE   (Cameroon)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTERACEAE; BIGNONIACEAE; FABACEAE; MALVACEAE; MORACEAE;

EID: 84885902284     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15473465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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