Title
Antibacterial activity of some Peruvian medicinal plants from the Callejon de Huaylas
Date Issued
09 January 2002
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Neto C.C.
Owens C.W.
Langfield R.D.
Comeau A.B.
Onge J.S.
Hammond G.B.
Abstract
Extracts of eight medicinal plants from the Callejon de Huaylas in Peru were screened for antibacterial activity in eighteen bacterial strains by the agar-diffusion method; six of these were active against a variety of bacteria. © 2002 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
Start page
133
End page
138
Volume
79
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Farmacología, Farmacia
Ciencias de las plantas, Botánica
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-0036136763
PubMed ID
Source
Journal of Ethnopharmacology
ISSN of the container
03788741
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported in part by the National Institutes of Health (Grant #1 R15 GM59049-01, to GBH), and by Galenica Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (to AJV). Plants were identified by Lic. Irma Fernandez; Himatanthus sucuuba was collected and identified by Dr Franklin Ayala.
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