ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF SOME MEDICINAL HERBAL EXTRACTS ON CLINICALLY IMPORTANT BACTERIAL PATHOGENS
AbstractThe antibacterial activity of methanol extract of Abutilon indicum, Hygrophila spinosa and Mimosa pudica were studied by agar well diffusion method in vitro. The effect of antibacterial potential was examined against Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus cereus, Proteus vulgaris, Enterococcus faecalis, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Vibrio cholerae, Salmonella typhi and Salmonella paratyphi. The methanol extract of these medicinal plants have showed consistently significant inhibitory activity on different bacterial pathogens tested. Furthermore, the Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) studies carried out by broth dilution assay and found the MIC ranged between 0.2 to 0.9mg/ml. Overall the methanol extracts was found to be more effective. The results of the extracts were compared with the standard antibiotics Kanamycin.
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IJPSR
J. Suriya*, Raja S. Bharathi, V. Sekar and R. Rajasekaran
Research Scholar, Centre of Advanced study in Marine Biology, Faculty of Marine Sciences, Annamalai University, Parangipettai- 608 502, Tamil Nadu, India
23 September, 2011
21 November, 2011
29 January, 2012
http://dx.doi.org/10.13040/IJPSR.0975-8232.3(2).490-93
1-February-2012
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