Journal of
Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy

  • Abbreviation: J. Pharmacognosy Phytother.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 2141-2502
  • DOI: 10.5897/JPP
  • Start Year: 2009
  • Published Articles: 234

Full Length Research Paper

Ethnobotanical survey of plants traditionally used for malaria prevention and treatment in indigenous villages of Tepi Town South West Ethiopia

Dagne Abebe
  • Dagne Abebe
  • Department of Biology, Natural and Computational Sciences, Wolkite University, P. O. Box 07, Wolkite, Ethiopia.
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Belachew Garedew
  • Belachew Garedew
  • Department of Biology, Natural and Computational Sciences, Wolkite University, P. O. Box 07, Wolkite, Ethiopia.
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  •  Received: 06 November 2018
  •  Accepted: 20 December 2018
  •  Published: 31 January 2019

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