Herbal antibiotics: Moving back into the mainstream as an alternative for "Superbugs"

Cellular and Molecular Biology

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1-2

  Sharifi Rad, Javad ^a  

^a ZABOL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; HERBACEOUS AGENT; OXYTETRACYCLINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; EDITORIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PRESCRIPTION; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; DRUG EFFECTS; HERBAL MEDICINE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HERBAL MEDICINE;

EID: 84994851664     PISSN: 01455680     EISSN: 1165158X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14715/cmb/2016.62.9.1     Document Type: Editorial

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