A comparison of the antimicrobial activity and in vitro toxicity of a medicinally useful biotype of invasive Chromolaena odorata (Asteraceae) with a biotype not used in traditional medicine

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• 作者：Aitebiremen G. Omokhua ; Lyndy J. McGaw ; Jude C. Chukwujekwu ; Jeffrey F. Finnie ; Johannes Van Staden ; ^{rcpgd@ukzn.ac.za}
• 关键词：Chromolaena odorata ; Biotype ; Antimicrobial ; Phytochemical ; Cytotoxicity ; Mutagenicity
• 刊名：South African Journal of Botany
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：108
• 期：Complete
• 页码：200-208
• 全文大小：448 K
• 卷排序：108

文摘

Chromolaena odorata is an invasive weed and exists as two biotypes (SAB and AWAB). AWAB is used in traditional medicine but not SAB. Leaf extracts of both yielded antimicrobial activity, with similar phytochemical properties. SAB plants had low cytotoxicity and lacked mutagenic effects. SAB plants have similar medicinal potential as AWAB against microbial infections.