Screening for antifungal activity of nineteen Latin American plants
✍ Scribed by Blanca Freixa; Roser Vila; Liliana Vargas; Nancy Lozano; Tomás Adzet; Salvador Cañigueral
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 68 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0951-418X
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✦ Synopsis
Dichloromethane and methanol extracts of 19 Latin American plants, most of them selected on the basis of traditional medicine reports, were subjected to screening for antifungal activity, using the agar disk diffusion assay against several fungi. Of the extracts tested, those of Andira inermis, Andira surinamensis,
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