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Antimicrobial Activity of Extracts of Herbal Plants used in the Traditional Medicine of Bahrain

✍ Scribed by Adel M. Mahasneh; Jameel A. Abbas; Ahmad A. El-Oqlah

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1996
Tongue: English
Weight: 247 KB
Volume: 10
Category: Article
ISSN: 0951-418X
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1573(199605)10:3<251::aid-ptr808>3.0.co;2-q

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✦ Synopsis

Petroleum ether, methanol, hexane, butanol and aqueous crude extracts of the whole aerial parts of Suaeda vermiculata, Prosopis farcta, Capparis spinosa and Sakola villosa exhibited variable degrees of antimicrobial activity. Extracts had low to moderate actvity against four bacterial and two fungal species compared with that exerted by antibiotics. The petroleum ether extract of S. vermiculota and the butanol extract of S. villosa had high antifungal activity against Candida albicans and Fusan'um oxysporum comparable to the antifungal miconazole nitrate.

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