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vid en ity and mortality worldwide, with HIV, tuberculosis and malaria being the most involved. Despite the progress renewed interest in the search for new drugs in order to combat resistance. The need for new, effective and af-Djouossi et al. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine (2015) 15:134 DOI 10.1186/s12906-015-0660-1against oxidative stress, fungal and bacterial infections.Cameroon Full list of author information is available at the end of the articlemade in the understanding of microorganisms and their control in industrialized nations, incidents due to drug resistant microorganisms and the emergence of hitherto unknown disease-causing microbes, pose enormous pub-lic health concerns [1]. Furthermore, the development of fordable drugs to treat microbial diseases in the develop-ing world is one of the major issues facing global health today. Plants have been used as a source of new medi-cinal compounds throughout history and continue to serve as the basis for many of the pharmaceuticals used today [3]. In recent decades, many studies have been carried out on different plant species to discover com-pounds of possible interest for medicinal applicatio