Antimicrobial activity of alcoholic and aqueous extracts of Corchorus olitorius leaves and seeds against some pathogenic bacteria and yeasts. | ||
| journal of al-qadisiyah for pure science(quarterly) | ||
| Article 1, Volume 14, Issue 1, March 2014, Pages 1-12 PDF (0 K) | ||
| Author | ||
| Huda Suhail Abid | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The present study describes the antimicrobial activity of methanol and aqueous extracts with four concentrations of each one (50,100,200,400) mg/ml of Corchorus olitorius leaves and seeds were estimated against some types of pathogenic bacteria (Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus cereus, Enterococcus faecalis, Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhi , Proteus vulgaris ) ,also against some yeasts (Candida albicans, Saccharomyces boulardii ,Saccharomyces cerevisiae), by using agar-well diffusion assay. All extracts exhibited varying degree of antimicrobial activity against the tested bacteria and Candida albicans, and this activity was increased with the increasing of concentrations belongs to them , while Saccharomyces boulardii and Saccharomyces cerevisiae showed resistance against all extracts .All alcoholic extracts (of leaves and seeds) exhibited higher degree of antimicrobial activity than the aqueous, also alcoholic and aqueous extracts of plant seeds exhibited higher degree of antimicrobial activity than the alcoholic and aqueous extracts of Corchorous olitorius leaves. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Antimicrobial activity; Corchorus olitorius; agar; well diffusion assay; alcoholic extract; aqueous extract | ||
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