The Essential Oil from Origanum vulgare L. and Its Individual Constituents Carvacrol and Thymol Enhance the Effect of Tetracycline against Staphylococcus aureus

Chemotherapy

Volumn 60, Issue 5-6, 2015, Pages 290-293

  Cirino, Isis Caroline S ^a   Menezes Silva, Suellen Maria P ^a   Silva, Helena Tainá D ^a   De Souza, Evandro Leite ^b   Siqueira Júnior, José P ^a  

^a Laboratório de Genética de Microrganismos   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARAÍBA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Lamiaceae; Modulation of drug resistance; Oregano; Phenolics; Staphylococcus

Indexed keywords

CARVACROL; ESSENTIAL OIL; PLANT EXTRACT; TETRACYCLINE; THYMOL;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESISTANCE; DRUG SENSITIVITY; GROWTH INHIBITION; LIPOPHILICITY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; OREGANO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84929688612     PISSN: 00093157     EISSN: 14219794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000381175     Document Type: Article

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