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Research Article

Activity of acetone and methanol extracts from thirty-one medicinal plant species against herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2

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Pages 1031-1037 | Received 28 Oct 2009, Accepted 05 Nov 2009, Published online: 23 Aug 2010

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