Avoiding pitfalls in determining antimicrobial activity of plant extracts and publishing the results

Abstract Background There is an urgent need to discover new antimicrobial compounds or extracts to address the crucial problem of increasing microbial resistance against current antibiotics. Plant chemical biodiversity is a valuable potential resource. Although compounds from plants are used as basi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jacobus Nicolaas Eloff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-05-01
Series:BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12906-019-2519-3