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Antimycobacterial evaluation of Peruvian plants
J G Graham1, S L Pendland, J L Prause
1Program for Collaborative Research in the Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA. jgraha1@uic.edu
Abstract:
We present the results of an antimycobacterial screening of 270 Peruvian plant samples representing 216 species from 171 genera in 63 families. Dichloromethane extracts were tested at a concentration of 50 microg/ml for inhibition of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in radiometric culture. Slightly more than half of the samples tested showed inhibition of M. tuberculosis at this concentration.

