Potential of the essential oil from pimenta pseudocaryophyllus as an antimicrobial agent

Acta Pharmaceutica

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 379-385

  Suzuki, Érika Yoko ^a   Baptista, Edilene Bolutari ^a   Resende Do Carmo, Antônio Márcio ^a   Miranda Chaves, Maria Das Graças Afonso ^a   Chicourel, Elizabeth Lemos ^a   Barbosa Raposo, Nádia Rezende ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

antimicrobial activity; essential oil; eugenol; Pimenta pseudocaryophyllus (Myrtaceae); scanning electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; CARYOPHYLLENE DERIVATIVE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ESSENTIAL OIL; EUGENOL; METHYLEUGENOL; NEOMYCIN; ORTHO CYMENE; PIMENTA PSEUDOCARYOPHYLLUS ESSENTIAL OIL; TERPINEN 4 OL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE OIL;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOSTASIS; CORYNEBACTERIUM XEROSIS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GROWTH INHIBITION; MICROCOCCUS; MICROCOCCUS YUNNANENSIS; MINIMUM BACTERICIDAL CONCENTRATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; PIMENTA; PIMENTA PSEUDOCARYOPHYLLUS; PROTEUS; PROTEUS HAUSERI; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SKIN ODOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; SWEATING; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECTS; GRAM NEGATIVE AEROBIC RODS AND COCCI; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEDICINAL PLANT; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; PHYTOTHERAPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; GRAM-NEGATIVE AEROBIC BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; OILS, VOLATILE; PHYTOTHERAPY; PIMENTA; PLANT OILS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

EID: 84908114097     PISSN: 13300075     EISSN: 18469558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/acph-2014-0024     Document Type: Article

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