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Maano Valerie Masiphephethu

Position: 
PhD candidate at the University of Venda

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Topic: 
Antimycobacterial and antioxidant activity of some medicinal plants used in treatment of tuberculosis symptoms in Vhembe district

This study focuses on assessing medicinal plants bioactive compounds with potential antimycobacterial and antioxidant activities, where solvents of varying polarities will be used to obtain a wide range of phytochemicals, which can be used in the development of new drugs with less or no side effects and readily available to poor communities.