Chemical Composition and Antimicrobial Potential of Palm Leaf Extracts from Babaçu (Attalea speciosa), Buriti (Mauritia flexuosa), and Macaúba (Acrocomia aculeata)

Babaçu (A. speciosa), Buriti (M. flexuosa), and Macaúba (A. aculeata) are palm trees typical of the ecotone area between Cerrado and the Amazon rainforest. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the antimicrobial potential of the extracts prepared from the leaves of those palms as well as determi...

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Published in:	The Scientific World Journal
Main Authors:	Adriana Idalina Torcato de Oliveira, Talal Suleiman Mahmoud, Guilherme Nobre L. do Nascimento, Juliana Fonseca Moreira da Silva, Raphael Sanzio Pimenta, Paula Benevides de Morais
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Wiley 2016-01-01
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/9734181

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