Mediterranean herb extracts inhibit microbial growth of representative oral microorganisms and biofilm formation of Streptococcus mutans

• Joachim Hickl,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Operative Dentistry and Periodontology, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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• Aikaterini Argyropoulou,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacognosy and Natural Products Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

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• Maria Eleni Sakavitsi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacognosy and Natural Products Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7849-638X

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• Maria Halabalaki,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacognosy and Natural Products Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

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• Ali Al-Ahmad,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Operative Dentistry and Periodontology, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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• Elmar Hellwig,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Operative Dentistry and Periodontology, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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• Nektarios Aligiannis,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacognosy and Natural Products Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

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• Alexios Leandros Skaltsounis,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacognosy and Natural Products Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

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• Annette Wittmer,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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• Kirstin Vach,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Biometry and Statistics, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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• Lamprini Karygianni

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lamprini.karygianni@zzm.uzh.ch

  Affiliations Department of Operative Dentistry and Periodontology, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Clinic for Preventive Dentistry, Periodontology and Cariology, Center of Dental Medicine University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7893-0393

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