Synergistic antimicrobial profiling of violacein with commercial antibiotics against pathogenic micro-organisms

Pharmaceutical Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 86-90

  Subramaniam, Shankar ^a   Ravi, Venkatraman ^a   Sivasubramanian, Aravind ^a  

^a SASTRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial synergy; Chromobacterium violaceum; Combinatory effect; FICI; MIC

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; AMINOGLYCOSIDE; AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFADROXIL; CEFDINIR; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINAFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; MACROLIDE; METICILLIN; OXYTETRACYCLINE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; POLYMYXIN B; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN; VIOLACEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHROMOBACTERIUM VIOLACEUM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG STRUCTURE; FRACTIONAL INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION INDEX; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SALMONELLA TYPHI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; CHROMOBACTERIUM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG SYNERGISM; INDOLES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED;

EID: 84890522819     PISSN: 13880209     EISSN: 17445116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13880209.2013.815634     Document Type: Article

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