Traditional use of herbal medicines implies substantial historical use, and this is certainly true for many products that are available as ‘traditional medicines. The experimental study was conducted between February May, 2016 at University Gondar on antibacterial effect leaf extract Pterolobium stellatum. purpose the present to test antimicrobial P. stellatum extracted leaves against som...

To date there are no clear criteria to determine whether a microbe is susceptible to biocides or not. As a starting point for distinguishing between wild-type and resistant organisms, we set out to determine the minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) and minimal bactericidal concentration (MBC) distributions for four common biocides; triclosan, benzalkonium chloride, chlorhexidine and sodium hy...

Antibacterial activity and phytochemical tests of eight whole plant methanol extracts belonging to family Euphorbiaceae were evaluated. In agar well diffusion assay the diameter of inhibition zones ranged from 3-13 mm. Phyllanthus emblica showed maximum activity of 13 mm. The MIC and MBC observed were 30-140 mcg/ml and 40-160 mcg/ml, respectively. P. piscatorum and P. emblica showed the lowest ...

Metronidazole was found to be active against Bacteroides fragilis strains isolated from human lesions. The minimal inhibitory concentrations (MIC) were from 0.16 to 2.5 mug/ml and the minimal bactericidal concentrations (MBC) were from 0.16 to 2.5 mug/ml; usually the MIC and MBC figures were equivalent. These levels are easily attainable in the serum following normal therapeutic doses. The drug...

Methicillin Resistant S. aureus poses serious threat to human health since the mortality and morbidity rate due to S. aureus infection is significant. In the present study, a total of 37 S. aureus strains isolated from 1078 clinical were tested against various antibiotics. Antibiotic susceptibility of the isolated S. aureus was carried out using disk diffusion method. The MIC and MBC of differe...

BACKGROUND Antibacterial activity of honey is mainly dependent on a combination of its peroxide activity and non-peroxide components. This study aims to investigate antibacterial activity of five varieties of Malaysian honey (three monofloral; acacia, gelam and pineapple, and two polyfloral; kelulut and tualang) against Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus cereus, Escherichia coli, and Pseudomonas a...

The antibiotic and chlorhexidine (CHX) susceptibility of 70 distinct clinical isolates: Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter baumannii, Staphylococcus aureus (not MRSA), Streptococcus pyogenes and Enterococcus faecalis (10 of each) were tested using minimal bactericidal (MBC) and/or minimal inhibitory (MIC) concentrations. Non-fermentative bacteria tole...

Abstract This study evaluated the potential of aqueous moringa ( Moringa oleifera ) leaf extract (ME) as a prebiotic and its effect on growth performance whiteleg shrimp, Penaeus vannamei Boone, 1931. The trial probiotics in broth containing ME showed that Lactobacillus acidophilus rate was significantly higher than plantarum reuteri . Furthermore, L. exhibited also better Vibrio alginolyticus ...

Ethanol extract of Rhodomyrtus tomentosa (Aiton) Hassk. leaf was evaluated for antibacterial activity against 47 clinical isolates of Streptococcus pyogenes. The extract exhibited good anti-S. pyogenes activity against all the tested isolates with similar minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC, 3.91-62.5 μg mL(-1)) and minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC, 3.91-62.5 μg mL(-1)) ranges. No surv...