Antimicrobial activity of Tulsi (Ocimum tenuiflorum) essential oil and their major constituents against three species of bacteria

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue MAY, 2016, Pages

  Yamani, Hanaa A ^a,b   Pang, Edwin C ^a   Mantri, Nitin ^a   Deighton, Margaret A ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial activity; Essential oil; Gas chromatography mass spectrometry; Headspace solid phase microextraction; Tulsi (Ocimum tenuiflorum)

Indexed keywords

ALPHA BISABOLENE; AMORPHENE; BERGAMOTENE; BETA BISABOLENE; BICYCLOGERMACRENE; BORNEOL; CADINENE; CAMPHOR; CARYOPHYLLENE; CINEOLE; COPAENE; CUBEBENE; ELEMENE; ESSENTIAL OIL; EUGENOL; FARNESENE; GERMACRENE; GUAIENE; HUMULENE; ISOBORENOL; LONGIPINENE; MUUROLENE; OCIMUM TENUIFLORUM EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; SESQUIPHELLANDRENE; SESQUISABINENE; TERPINEOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; ZINGIBERENE;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BROTH DILUTION; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG IDENTIFICATION; DRUG ISOLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOWER; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; OCIMUM TENUIFLORUM; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT LEAF; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84973527192     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00681     Document Type: Article

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