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Review Article
Commercial Essential Oils as Potential
Antimicrobials to Treat Skin Diseases
Ané Orchard and Sandy van Vuuren
Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand,
7 York Road, Parktown 2193, South Africa
Correspondence should be addressed to Sandy van Vuuren; sandy.vanvuuren@wits.ac.za
Received 21 July 2016; Accepted 9 October 2016; Published 4 May 2017
Academic Editor: Pinarosa Avato
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