Antibacterial Activity of Medicinal Aqueous Plant Extracts against Mycobacterium tuberculosis
| Title: | Antibacterial Activity of Medicinal Aqueous Plant Extracts against Mycobacterium tuberculosis |
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| Authors: | Muna Mohammed Buzayan, Fauzia Rajab El-Garbulli |
| Source: | Malaysian Journal of Microbiology, Vol 8, Iss 3, Pp 203-206 (2012) |
| Publisher Information: | Malaysian Society for Microbiology, 2012. |
| Publication Year: | 2012 |
| Collection: | LCC:Microbiology |
| Subject Terms: | Mycobacterium tuberculosis, anti-mycobacterial activity, BACTEC MGIT 960 system, aqueous extracts of plants, Eastern Libya, Microbiology, QR1-502 |
| More Details: | Tuberculosis (TB) remains a serious health problem in many regions of the world, and the development of resistance to antibiotics by this microbe created the need for new drugs to replace those which have lost effectiveness. This study assesses the medicinal anti-Mycobacterium tuberculosis properties of natural products obtained from plants collected from Eastern Libya. In this study aqueous extracts of nine different plants were assayed for their Mycobacterium tuberculosis inhibitory activity using the BACTEC MGIT960 susceptibility test method. The aqueous extracts of Ceratonia siliqua L, Helichrysum stoechas (L.) Moench and Thymus algeriensis did not show any activity against M. tuberculosis in different concentrations. The aqueous extract of Marrubium vulgare L. from Syria showed high activity against M. tuberculosis. Marrubium alysson L., Marrubium vulgare L., Pistacia lentiscus L, Quercus coccifera L, Thymus capitatus (L.) Hoffm. & Link, showed varying degrees of activity against M. tuberculosis. The results of this study show that aqueous extracts from six different medicinal plants have different effects against M. tuberculosis in vitro. |
| Document Type: | article |
| File Description: | electronic resource |
| Language: | English |
| ISSN: | 1823-8262 2231-7538 |
| Relation: | http://web.usm.my/mjm/issues/vol8no3/Short%201.pdf; https://doaj.org/toc/1823-8262; https://doaj.org/toc/2231-7538 |
| Access URL: | https://doaj.org/article/5c291b19d66c4c80baa970f6c3d6beb6 |
| Accession Number: | edsdoj.5c291b19d66c4c80baa970f6c3d6beb6 |
| Database: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
| ISSN: | 18238262 22317538 |
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| Published in: | Malaysian Journal of Microbiology |
| Language: | English |