In vitro antimicrobial activity of five essential oils on multidrug resistant Gram-negative clinical isolates

Journal of Intercultural Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 212-218

  Sakkas, Hercules ^a   Gousia, Panagiota ^a   Economou, Vangelis ^b   Sakkas, Vassilios ^a   Petsios, Stefanos ^a   Papadopoulou, Chrissanthy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acinetobacter; Antimicrobial activity; Escherichia coli; Essential oil; Klebsiella; Multidrug resistant; Pseudomonas

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014326308     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21468397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5455/jice.20160331064446     Document Type: Article

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