Antimicrobial activity of selected Peruvian medicinal plants

Rosario Rojas; Beatriz Bustamante; José Bauer; Irma Fernández; Joaquina Albán; Olga Lock

doi:10.1016/S0378-8741(03)00212-5

Antimicrobial activity of selected Peruvian medicinal plants

Rosario Rojas
, Beatriz Bustamante
, José Bauer
, Irma Fernández
, Joaquina Albán
, Olga Lock

Unidad de Micología Clínica

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Museo de Historia Natural, Lima

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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).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	199-204
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Ethnopharmacology
Volume	88
Issue number	2-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-8741(03)00212-5
State	Published - 1 Oct 2003

Keywords

Agar-well diffusion assay
Antimicrobial
Medicinal plants
Perū

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