Antiplasmodial Activity of Some Medicinal Plants Used in Sudanese Folk-medicine

Environmental Health Insights

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ahmed, El Hadi M ^a   Nour, Bakri Y M ^a   Mohammed, Yousif G ^a   Khalid, Hassan s ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEZIRA   (Sudan)

^b National Council for Research   (Sudan)

Author keywords

antiplasmodial activity; folk medicine; medicinal plants

Indexed keywords

EID: 85073240100     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11786302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4137/EHI.S4108     Document Type: Article

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