Antibacterial activity of Venda medicinal plants.
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antibacterial | ethnobotany | traditional
Antibacterial activity of Venda medicinal plants.:
Antibacterial activity of Venda medicinal plants.
Fitoterapia. 2007 May 24;
Authors: Steenkamp V, Fernandes AC, van Rensburg CE
Crude methanol and water extracts of 36 plants, employed in the treatment of diseases of probable bacterial etiology by the Venda people, were screened for antibacterial activity. Combretum molle, Peltophorum africanum, Piper capense, Terminalia sericea and Zanthoxylum davyi were the most active and presented MIC values </=1.00 mg/ml.
PMID: 17582701 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
