Antimicrobial properties of tomato leaves, stems, and fruit and their relationship to chemical composition

• Main Authors: Christina C. Tam (Author), Kevin Nguyen (Author), Daniel Nguyen (Author), Sabrina Hamada (Author), Okhun Kwon (Author), Irene Kuang (Author), Steven Gong (Author), Sydney Escobar (Author), Max Liu (Author), Jihwan Kim (Author), Tiffany Hou (Author), Justin Tam (Author), Luisa W. Cheng (Author), Jong H. Kim (Author), Kirkwood M. Land (Author), Mendel Friedman (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background We previously reported that the tomato glycoalkaloid tomatine inhibited the growth of Trichomonas vaginalis strain G3, Tritrichomonas foetus strain D1, and Tritrichomonas foetus-like strain C1 that cause disease in humans and farm and domesticated animals. The increasing prevalen...