| screening of some new caledonian and vanuatu medicinal plants for antimycobacterial activity. | twenty plants, belonging to sixteen families, used in traditional new caledonian and vanuatu medicine for treatment of symptoms potentially related to tuberculosis (cough, fever or inflammation) were screened for antimycobacterial activity. we also screened an original endemic plant, amborella trichopoda, only member of the monogeneric family amborellaceae and considered the most primitive living angiosperm. in total, 55 extracts were evaluated for inhibitory activity against mycobacterium bovis ... | 2005 | 15588670 |