Medical‐Grade Honey Kills Antibiotic‐Resistant Bacteria In Vitro and Eradicates Skin Colonization
Open Access
- 1 June 2008
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 46 (11), 1677-1682
- https://doi.org/10.1086/587892
Abstract
Background. Antibiotic resistance among microbes urgently necessitates the development of novel antimicrobial agents. Since ancient times, honey hasThis publication has 31 references indexed in Scilit:
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