The results of antimicrobial potency of ethanol, methanol and aqueous extracts of various medicinal plants, the positive control kanamycin and the zone of inhibition of these extracts. Some common spices and plants with antimicrobial and. Oregano oil also appears to have some activity against candida species, possibly because of its carvacrol content. The antibacterial activities of the plant volatile oils presented in table 1 are in general agreement with previously reported studies on the volatile oils of p. Plant species family common name part used therapeutic use abrus precatoriusl. In this study antimicrobial activity of the medicinal plants tribulus terrestris, cinnamom verum and punica granatum were checked against the bacterial isolates from.
The evaluation of antibacterial activity for different extracts of each plant was carried out using the disc diffusion method and determination of minimum. Plants are used medicinally in still widely used in ethnomedicine around the world different countries and are a source of many potent and 1,2. Plants have been a source of herbal remedies throughout the history of mankind. The toxicity of extracts from arthemus sativa, which is known to have antimicrobial activity, was also studied 10. However, it is impossible to include all the plant of potent antimicrobial activity. International journal of science, environment and technology, vol. In vitro antimicrobial activity of some medicinal plants. Antimicrobial activity of plant secondary metabolites. Issn 23203862 antimicrobial activity of ethnomedicinal. Issn 23203862 antimicrobial activity of ethnomedicinal plants. Ethnobotanical information of some traditionally used indian medicinal plant species selected for antibacterial activity.
Ten plant extracts were analysed for their antimicrobial activities using the agar well diffusion and broth microdilution method. Antibacterial activity of medicinal plant extracts article pdf available in brazilian journal of microbiology 384. Antibacterial activity of medicinal plants used against. Differentiation of antimicrobial activity in antiseptic, antibacterial, bactericidal, bacteriostatic, antifungal, fungicide, antiviral, virus, will not be done in this entry, just the mention of plants that have shown such activity. Antimicrobial activity of polyphenols and alkaloids in. Introduction medicinal plants are abundant source of antimicrobial molecules.
The use of medicinal plants all over the world predates the introduction of antibiotics and other modern drugs into africa continent haslam et al. Pdf antimicrobial activity of medicinal plant leaf. The ethanolic extract of dactyloctenium aegyptium showed antifungal. Varying concentration of each extracts 200mgml, 150 mgml, 100mgml. Antimicrobial activity of some important medicinal plant. In a first study of ongoing research, endophytic bacteria were isolated from two medicinal plants, hypericum perforatum and ziziphora capitata with contrasting antimicrobial activities from the chatkal biosphere reserve of uzbekistan, and their plantspecific traits involved in biocontrol and. Antimicrobial activity of essential oils from mediterranean. Pdf antibacterial activity of medicinal plant extracts. Medicinal plants are known to harbor potential endophytic microbes, due to their bioactive compounds. Clinically, the minimum inhibitory concentrations are used not only to determine the amount of antibiotic that the patient will receive. A wide range of medicinal plants extracts are used to treat several infections as they have potential antimicrobial activity. All equipment and growing media were sterilized by autoclaving at 115c and 15 psi for 30 minutes.
The antimicrobial activity has been investigated against s. The increasing incidence of microorganisms becoming resistant to antibiotics has continuously become a scientific community concern. Medicinal plants, traditional uses, phytochemical effects, antimicrobial activity. Antimicrobial activity in leaf extract of neem azadirachta indica against human pathogenic bacteria.
Antimicrobial activity of some plant extracts against. Ethanol extracts exhibited a higher degree of antimicrobial activity as compared with water and hexane extracts fraction. Antibacterial activity of plant extracts and phytochemicals. Antimicrobial activity of latex was evaluated by agar disc diffusion method and inhibition zone diameters were measured according to bauer et al. Antimicrobial activity of amazonian medicinal plants. Evaluation of antibacterial activity of some medicinal plants extracts. In vitro antimicrobial activity and phytochemical analysis. Shahidul kabir department of microbiology, stamford university, bangladesh email. A correlation of the antimicrobial activity of the compounds tested and their relative percentage composition in the plant volatile oils used in this study, with their chemical structure, functional groups and configuration, suggests a number of observations.
Antimicrobial activity of some ethnomedicinal plants used by. The antimicrobial activity of essential oils extracted from a variety of aromatic plants, often used in the portuguese gastronomy was studied in vitro by the agar diffusion method. The middle east encompasses a wide spectrum of plant diversity with over 20,000 different species in habitats ranging from deserts to snowcapped mountains. In this study, the antimicrobial activities of eight species plants, used for treatment of various diseases, were investigated.
Medicinal plants constitute an effective source of antimicrobial natural products. Considering the vast potentiality of plants as sources for antimicrobial drugs, this study aimed to investigate in vitroantibacterial and antifungal activity of extracts from. Pdf the resistance of pathogenic bacterial strains to antibiotics is the major burning issue around the world. The antimicrobial activity from mikania triangularis, known as thin leaf guaco, was. Its subdisciplines are virology study of viruses, bacteriology study of bacteria. It was concluded that ethanol extracts from 70 % of the plants were toxic to cell and only one of the species of combretum duarteanum showed antimicrobial activity.
Antibacterial activity of medicinal plants used against uti. The middle east encompasses a wide spectrum of plant diversity with over 20,000 different species in habitats ranging from deserts to snowcapped. Plant name organism media extracts inhibitionmm 24 hrs 48 hrs 72 hrs. Antimicrobial activity of ginger zingiber officinale. Antimicrobial activity of medicinal plants against human pathogenic bacteria 657 inflammatory properties of plants mahesh and satish, 2008. Malvaceae against cotrimoxazolresistant bacteria strains. Many scientists around the world are performing research on plants to be able to discover possible antimicrobial compounds. The increased resistance of microorganisms to the currently used antimicrobials has lead to the evaluation of other agents that might have antimicrobial activity. Antimicrobial activity of polyphenols and alkaloids in middle. Antibioticresistant microorganisms have been an evergrowing concern over the past years. The use of plant extracts with known antimicrobial properties, can be of great significance in therapeutic treatments.
A wide range of medicinal plants extracts are used to treat several infections as. Medicinal plants and antimicrobial activity sciencedirect. In vitro investigation of antimicrobial activities of. For comparing the activity, standard antibiotic discs tetracycline for. Antimicrobial activity of some indian medicinal plants. The antimicrobial activity from mikania triangularis, known as thin leaf guaco, was tested against five genera of bacteria and three genera of. Evaluation of antimicrobial activity of different solvent. Antimicrobial activity of 18 ethnomedicinal plant extracts were evaluated against nine bacterial strains bacillus subtilis, staphylococcus aureus, staphylococcus epidermidis, enterococcus faecalis, escherichia coli, klebsiella pneumonia, pseudomonas aeruginosa, ervinia sp, proteus vulgaris and one fungal strain candida albicans. Antimicrobial activity antibacterial activity introduction the science dealing with the study of the prevention and treatment of diseases caused by microorganisms is known as medical microbiology. Antimicrobial activity of garlic against oral streptococci.
May 15, 2019 antibioticresistant microorganisms have been an evergrowing concern over the past years. Antimicrobial activity of garlic, tea tree oil, and chlorhexidine against oral microorganisms. Many focus on determining the antimicrobial activity of plant extracts found in folk medicine, essential oils or isolated compounds such as alkaloids, flavonoids. Antimicrobial activity of fruit latexes from ten laticiferous. A wide range of medicinal plant parts the potential of higher plants as source for new is used for. May 14, 2018 antimicrobial activity of solvent extracts and essential oil from plants were determined by zone of inhibition on the growth of streptococcus mutans mtcc 497 and lactobacillus acidophilus mtcc 10307 using the agar well diffusion method. Box, 395, ethiopia abstract antibiotics provide the main basis for the therapy of microbial bacterial and fungal infections. Antimicrobial activity of some plant species used for the medical. Table 2 summarizes the results obtained and listed the only plant species that presented some activity against at least one microorganism.
This study has been conducted to evaluate the antimicrobial activity of different medicinal plant extracts against human pathogens including two reference strains 2, 9, 18. Plants have been used in traditional medicine for many centuries as arbotifacients. Antimicrobial activity of selected medicinal plants against. Feb 16, 2007 the screenings of these medicinal plants showed that some of the screened plants are potential source of antibacterial agents.
Antimicrobial activity of ethnomedicinal plants pooja, abhishek kumar, shruti dudeja, rohit chauhan, hemalata, sunena, vikas beniwal, vinod chhokar, anil kumar abstract medicinal plants have become part of complementary medicines worldwide and have been explored for centuries because of their potential health assistance. All 3 completely inhibited fungal growth of aspergillus and penicillium species. Chloroform, butanol, ethyl acetate and nhexane extracts of these plants were used for antimicrobial screening. A study of antimicrobial activity of few medicinal herbs parastoo karimi alavijeh, parisa karimi alavijeh and devindra sharma j.
Pdf antibacterial activity of important medicinal plants on human. Present work deals with the antibacterial activity of the crude extract of thevetia peruviana. Antimicrobial activity of medicinal plant extracts and their. Agaragar was used as media for the test microorganisms. Antimicrobial activity of medicinal plant for oral health. Various medicinal plants shows vast majority of antimicrobial activity.
Pdf medicinal plants and its antimicrobial properties. This has necessitated a search for a new source of antimicrobial substances such as plants as they produce a variety of bioactive compounds of known therapeutic properties. In the studies themselves one finds a wide range of criteria. Studies have compared the effects of oregano essential oil, thymol, and carvacrol on fungi.
In the present study, antimicrobial activity of azadirachta indica was evaluated against gram negative pathogenic bacteria escherichia coli. Aldehydes, notably formaldehyde and glutaraldehyde, are known to possess powerful antimicrobial activity. Many of these plants have been investigated scientifically for antimicrobial activity, and some plant products have been shown to inhibit the growth of pathogenic microorganisms. Antimicrobial activity of azadirachta indica neem against. The aqueous extracts of currently utilized amazonian medicinal plants were assayed in vitro searching for antimicrobial activity against human and animal pathogenic microorganisms. Pdf antimicrobial activity of medicinal plant leaf extracts against. Hence, the present study is first systematic attempt to analyse the antibacterial and antifungal potential of these three species on selected bacterial and fungal strains. Frontiers antimicrobial activity of medicinal plants. To determine antibacterial activity of water, oil and methanol extracts of guava psidium guajava, green tea camellia.
Association of antibiotics and plant extracts showed synergistic antibacterial activity against antibioticresistant bacteria. Pdf medicinal plants and antimicrobial activity owor. Mic is generally regarded as the most basic laboratory measurement of the activity of an antimicrobial agent against an organism. This has led researchers to direct their attention onto plants to be able to discover new possible antimicrobial compounds.
Medium resuspended lyophilized aqueous extracts of different organs of amazonian medicinal plants were assayed by in vitro screening for antimicrobial activity. Antibacterial activity of plant extracts 247 brazilian journal of microbiology 2000 31. The collected ethnomedicinal plants were used in folk. Antimicrobial activity of medicinal plant extracts and their synergistic effect on some selected pathogens desalegn amenu college of natural and computational science, biology department, wollega university, p. The screenings of these medicinal plants showed that some of the screened plants are potential source of antibacterial agents. I left out of this first communication a large quantity of plants with lesser use in the latin world. Various medicinal plants have been used for years in daily life to treat diseases all over the world. Antimicrobial activity of medicinal plant extracts and. Its sub disciplines are virology study of viruses, bacteriology study of bacteria. E2, e4, e5 and e6 exhibited no antimicrobial activity against any of the bacterial strains. Antimicrobial activity of some ethnomedicinal plants used. The results of in vitro antimicrobial assay prove that methanol is more successful in the extraction of. Antimicrobial activity antimicrobial activity for the leaf, stem and roots of oldenlandia corymbosa, ricinus communis, lpomea aquatic, xanthium strumarium, mentha piperita against staphylococcus aureus and escherichia coli are summarized in table 2. Traditional herbalists used plants to treat infectious disease.
In a first study of ongoing research, endophytic bacteria were isolated from two medicinal plants, hypericum perforatum and ziziphora capitata with contrasting antimicrobial activities from the chatkal biosphere reserve of uzbekistan, and their plantspecific traits. The antibacterial effect of some medicinal plant extracts. Antimicrobial activity of medicinal plants against human. The alcohol terpenoids in this study did exhibit activity against the test microorganisms, potentially acting as either protein denaturing agents pelczar et al. Antimicrobial activity of polyphenolrich fractions from sida alba l. Phytochemical analysis of traditional medicinal plants and. Pdf medicinal plants and antimicrobial activity researchgate. Antimicrobial activities of alcoholic extracts of neem leaves were used. Results of antimicrobial activity of the five plant extracts can suggested that s. A study of antimicrobial activity of few medicinal herbs. Highest yield of extractable substances in the water extract 15. Antimicrobial activity of solvent extracts and essential oil from plants were determined by zone of inhibition on the growth of streptococcus mutans mtcc 497 and lactobacillus acidophilus mtcc 10307 using the agar well diffusion method. Deans aromatic and medicinal plant group, scottish agricultural college, auchincruive, south ayrshire, uk 7288799.
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