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ArticleAfrican journal of traditional, complementary, and alternative medicines : AJTCAM2017

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITIES OF SOME SAUDI ARABIAN HERBAL PLANTS.

Abdelaaty A Shahat, Elsayed A Mahmoud, Abdullah A Al-Mishari, Mansour S Alsaid

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Article in African journal of traditional, complementary, and alternative medicines : AJTCAM, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Abdelaaty A ShahatPharmacognosy Department, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University P.O. Box 2457, Riyadh 11451.
Elsayed A MahmoudFood Science and Nutrition Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Sohag University, Egypt.
Abdullah A Al-MishariPharmacognosy Department, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University P.O. Box 2457, Riyadh 11451.
Mansour S AlsaidPharmacognosy Department, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University P.O. Box 2457, Riyadh 11451.
Al-Azhar University · EGSohag University · EG

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundSeveral edible plants are used in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia since early time to control microbial infections. In the present study, twenty-four Saudi Arabian medicinal plants d according to traditionally used were select and investigated for the antimicrobial activities. MATERIALS AND

methodsThis study was designed at evaluating the antimicrobial activities of the methanol extracts of twenty-four species of sixteen plant families used in the traditional medicine by Saudi Arabian people for the treatment of numerous ailments of the microbial and non-microbial origin against four Gram-positive, four Gram-negative bacteria and four fungi and yeast using the agar well diffusion method.

resultsOf most of the plants tested were found to be active against two to eight organisms. Five plants were active against eight organisms. The data appeared that extracts of

conclusionThe antimicrobial activity of plant extracts against bacteria was more effective than against fungi.

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MagnoliopsidaPlants, MedicinalAnti-Bacterial AgentsAntifungal AgentsArtemisiaBacteriaEchiumFungiMicrobial Sensitivity TestsPlant ExtractsResedaceaeRumexSaudi ArabiaZiziphusAnti-Bacterial AgentsAntifungal AgentsPlant ExtractsfungiGram-negative bacteriaGram-positive bacteriamedicinal plantsSaudi Arabiayeast

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PMID28573232
PMCPMC5446440
OpenAlexW2593268078

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