Inhibitory effect of Satureja on certain types of organisms

This review focuses on inhibitory effect of Satureja species on certain organism types. For this purpose; Web of Science, PubMed, Scopus, and Google Scholar databases were searched up to 24 th December 2013. The search term was only “Satureja” without narrowing or limiting search elements. Once all reports obtained from databases (total number is about 610), author keywords and keywords plus sections, in addition to their full texts, were carefully checked out to find the active plant species related to the topic of this review. By this way, errors based on overlooks were eliminated. Forty-three reports, published between 1991-2013, were reviewed for the ir insecticidal, larvicidal, acaricidal, antiviral, anti-leishmanial, anti-protozoal, trypanocidal, nematicidal, ovicidal, molluscicidal, anti-helmintic, amoebicidal activities.