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The antimicrobial activity of essential oils and essential oil components towards oral bacteria.
Journal article

The antimicrobial activity of essential oils and essential oil components towards oral bacteria.

  • Shapiro S Abteilung für orale Mikrobiologie und allgemeine Immunologie, Zahnärztliches Institut der Universität Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Meier A
  • Guggenheim B
  • 1994-08-01
Published in:
  • Oral microbiology and immunology. - 1994
Actinomyces viscosus
Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans
Anti-Infective Agents, Local
Bacteria, Anaerobic
Bacteroidaceae
Capnocytophaga
Drug Antagonism
Drug Synergism
Eikenella corrodens
Eugenol
Formocresols
Fusobacterium nucleatum
Microbial Sensitivity Tests
Mouth
Oils, Volatile
Peptostreptococcus
Plant Extracts
Plant Oils
Porphyromonas gingivalis
Prevotella
Streptococcus
Thymol
Treponema
English A method for reproducibly determining minimal inhibitory concentrations and minimal bactericidal concentrations of plant extracts towards fastidiously and facultatively anaerobic oral bacteria, predicated upon measurements of optical densities in microtitre plate wells, was devised. The antimicrobial properties of some botanical oils were surveyed; of these, Australian tea tree oil, peppermint oil, and sage oil proved to be the most potent essential oils, whereas thymol and eugenol were potent essential oil components.
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  • English
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