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Tatsuya Mori1, Cecilia Chang, Dora Maurtua
1Department of Chemistry, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, USA.
Phytotherapy Research : PTR
|January 31, 2006
Abstract:
A fraction from the ethanol extract of the Peruvian medicinal plant Mauria heterophylla (Anacardiaceae) showed antibacterial activity against Escherichia coli 35992, Staphylococcus aureus 20213 and Pseudomonas aeruginosa 15442. Further fractionation led to the isolation and characterization of ethyl gallate as the antibacterial active compound.