Ethnobotanical Drug Discovery Based on Medicine Men's Trials in the African Savanna: Screening of East African Plants for Antimicrobial Activity II

1 September 1993

journal article
Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Journal of Natural Products

Vol. 56 (9) , 1539-1546
https://doi.org/10.1021/np50099a012

Abstract

Antimicrobial activity of a number of East African plants was evaluated. The plants collected based on information provided by medicine men showed a much higher probability of finding active extracts than the plants collected randomly.

Keywords

SAVANNA
ETHNOBOTANICAL
MEDICINE MEN'S
DRUG
ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY
EAST AFRICAN
AFRICAN PLANTS

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