Antibacterial activities of selected medicinal plants in traditional treatment of human wounds in Ethiopia

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Jemal Seid · All Africa Leprosy Tuberculosis and Rehabilitation Training Centre

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This finding justifies the use of the plants in wound healing and their potential activity against wound-causing bacteria. Their toxicity level and antimicrobial activity with different extraction solvents should further be studied to use them as sources and templates for the synthesis of drugs to control wound and other disease-causing bacteria.

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Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies Phytochemical compounds biological activities

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Published in: Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine

Volume 1, Issue 5, pp. 370-375

DOI: 10.1016/s2221-1691(11)60082-8

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Antibacterial activities of selected medicinal plants in traditional treatment of human wounds in Ethiopia

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