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Rabia Naz1, Asghari Bano

  • 1Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine
|April 18, 2013
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Keywords:
AntibacterialAntifungalEthanolMethanolRelative percentage inhibitionRicinus communis

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