Title
Antimicrobial activity of selected Peruvian medicinal plants
Date Issued
01 October 2003
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Ireland Ltd
Abstract
The antimicrobial activity of 36 ethanol extracts from 24 plants, all of them currently used in the Peruvian traditional medicine for the treatment of several infectious and inflammatory disorders, was tested by means of the agar-well diffusion assay against four bacteria (Bacillus subtilis, Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa) and four fungi (Candida albicans, Trichophyton mentagrophytes, Microsporum gypseum and Sporothrix schenckii). Twenty-five (69%) extracts showed some degree of antimicrobial activity against at least one microorganism. The plants with the greatest antimicrobial activity were Cestrum auriculatum L. Heritier (Solanaceae), Iryanthera lancifolia Ducke Suesseng (Myristicaceae), Lepechinia meyenii (Walp.) Epling (Lamiaceae) and Ophryosporus peruvianus (Gmelin) King & H. Rob. (Asteraceae). © 2003 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
Start page
199
End page
204
Volume
88
Issue
March 2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
BiologÃa celular, MicrobiologÃa
QuÃmica medicinal
Ciencias de las plantas, Botánica
Subjects
Publication version
Version of Record
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-0041829133
PubMed ID
Source
Journal of Ethnopharmacology
ISSN of the container
0378-8741
Sponsor(s)
The authors wish to gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Dirección Académica de Investigación of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Grant DAI-010700000110). We would also like to thank the technical assistance of Carmen Castro and Victor H. Doroteo.
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción CientÃfica
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