Antimycobacterial natural products from Moroccan medicinal plants: Chemical composition, bacteriostatic and bactericidal profile of Thymus satureioides and Mentha pulegium essential oils

Objective: To evaluate the susceptibility of Mycobacterium aurum and Mycobacterium smegmatis in vitro to the essential oils obtained from two medicinal plants: Thymus satureioides (T. satureioides) and Mentha pulegium (M. pulegium), and to study their chemical composition. Methods: The aerial parts...

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Main Authors: Marwa Chraibi, Abdellah Farah, Sara Lebrazi, Oumaima El Amine, Mohammed Iraqui Houssaini, Kawtar Fikri-Benbrahim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2016-10-01
Series:Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2221169115309473