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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-05-01
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Series: | BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12906-019-2519-3 |