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1Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Karachi, Karachi-75270.
Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
Ten samples of crude and processed honey were used to determine antimicrobial activity against twenty five species of pathogenic and nonpathogenic bacteria, commonly encountered in human infections. The antifungal activity was checked against ten parasitic and saprophytic fungi. Most of the samples of honey used in the study showed broad spectrum antibacterial and promising antifungal activity.
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