@inbook {1803,
	title = {Composition and Antimicrobial Activity of the Essential Oil of Thymus fontanesii},
	booktitle = {Pharmaceutical Biology},
	volume = {44},
	year = {2006},
	month = {2006///},
	pages = {607 - 612},
	abstract = {The yield of oil isolated by hydrodistillation from aerial parts of Thymus fontanesii Boiss. et Reut. (Lamiaceae) growing wild in Djelfa (Algeria) was 0.9\%. Analysis of the oil by gas chromatography (GC) and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) revealed the identification of 47 components accounting for 98.5\% of the total oil. The oil was found to be rich in monoterpenes (91.5\%) with major constituents being thymol (29.3\%), gamma -terpinene (21.7\%), p-cymene (15.9\%), and thymol methyl ether (11.4\%), while a smaller amount of linalool (4.8\%) and beta -caryophyllene (2.9\%) were detected. According to the antimicrobial study using the disk diffusion method and the agar dilution assay-minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC), the oil showed strong in vitro growth inhibition activity against Gram-negative bacteria and antifungal activity. The oil exhibited the maximum antifungal activity against Mucor ramaniamus (MIC = 0.2 mu L/mL)},
	isbn = {1388-0209},
	url = {http://muse.lib.auth.gr:9797/com/csa/?MuseHost=www-mi2.csa.com\&MuseFirst=1\&id=2\&recnum=0\&SID=147874bda29087943ea1dc03733c75de\&MusePath=/ids70/view_record.php},
	author = {Dob, T and Dahmane, D and Benabdelkader, T and Chelghoum, C}
}
