Title
Antibacterial activity of ethanolic extracts of marine algae from central coast of Peru
Other title
Actividad antibacteriana de extractos etanólicos de macroalgas marinas de la costa central del Perú
Date Issued
01 January 2003
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Abstract
Antibacterial activity of ethanolic extracts from 12 macroalgae were evaluated. Extracts were obtained according to the protocol of Vlachos et al. (1996). Extracts were tested against with 5 clinic strains and 6 no clinic strains of the genus Staphylococcus, Enterococcus, Pseudomonas, Escherichia, Salmonella, Aeromonas y Vibrio. Only Grateloupia doryphora, Ahnfeltiopsis durvillaei, Prionitis decipiens (Rhodophyta), Petalonia fascia (Phaeophyta) and Bryopsis plumosa (Chlorophyta) showed some antibacterial activity against the clinic strains Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 25923 and Enterococcus faecalis ATCC 29212 and the no clinic strain Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 6633. Ethanolic extract of B. plumosa presented the highest antibacterial activity against S. aureus strains. The extract of P. fascia showed the highest antibacterial activity against the three sensible strains.
Start page
125
End page
132
Volume
10
Issue
2
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Biología marina, Biología de agua dulce, Limnología
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84962455940
Source
Revista Peruana de Biologia
ISSN of the container
15610837
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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