Antifungal and antibacterial activity of four selected Mexican medicinal plants

Victor Navarro García; Gabriela Rojas; L. Gerardo Zepeda; Margarita Aviles; Macrina Fuentes; Armando Herrera; Enrique Jiménez

doi:10.1080/13880200600715837

Antifungal and antibacterial activity of four selected Mexican medicinal plants

Victor Navarro García, Gabriela Rojas, L. Gerardo Zepeda, Margarita Aviles, Macrina Fuentes, Armando Herrera, Enrique Jiménez

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The antifungal and antibacterial activity of 10 crude extracts from four different species, all of them used in Mexican folk medicine for the treatment of infectious diseases, were tested in vitro for antimicrobial activity against Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus faecalis, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Salmonella typhi, Candida albicans, Trichophyton mentagrophytes, and Trichophyton rubrum. All extracts from the above plants showed some degree of antimicrobial activity against at least two microorganisms tested. The strongest antibacterial activity was found in the water extract of Hibiscus sabdariffa and the methanol extract of Lysiloma acapulcensis, whereas the methanol extract from Loeselia mexicana showed the best antifungal activity against dermatophytes.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	297-300
Number of pages	4
Journal	Pharmaceutical Biology
Volume	44
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/13880200600715837
State	Published - 1 Jun 2006

Keywords

Antibacterial activity
Antifungal activity
Folk medicine
Infectious diseases
Medicinal plants

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