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Assessment of the antibacterial activity of galangin against 4-quinolone resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus.
Phytomedicine : international journal of phytotherapy and phytopharmacology - 1 Feb 2006
Cushnie T P T, Lamb A J
Abstract excerpt
The flavonol galangin is present in numerous plants and is a major constituent of Helichrysum aureonitens, a perennial herb used by South African indigenes to treat infection. In the present study, the antibacterial activity of galangin was assessed against 17 strains of 4-quinolone resistant S. aureus using an agar dilution assay. It was determined that the flavonol had a minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC)...
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