In vitro Evaluation of Antibacterial Activity of Various Crude Leaf Extracts of Indian Sacred Plant, Ocimum sanctum L.

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dc.contributor.authorGoyal, Pankaj
dc.contributor.authorKaushik, Purshotam
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-31T10:02:05Z
dc.date.available2015-08-31T10:02:05Z
dc.date.issued2011-07
dc.description.abstractThe medical world is on an immense requirement to discover novel antibiotics due to widespread emergence of resistance among microbial pathogens against currently available antibiotics. Traditional plants have been proved to be better source in the search for novel antimicrobial compounds. In such effort, we accessed the susceptibilities of some clinically significant bacterial species against various extracts made up from leaves of Ocimum sanctum L. (family: Lamiaceae). Antibacterial activity of crude extracts was found to be reliant on the nature of extract and the bacterial strains evaluated. Methanol extract was found to have comparatively higher activity than other organic and aqueous extracts. Grampositive bacteria showed variable susceptibilities while Gram-negative Salmonella typhi has shown to be completely resistance to all the tested extracts. Minimum inhibitory concentration data showed hopeful results as some of the extracts exhibited significant inhibitions of bacteria even at low concentrations. This study indicated that leaves of Ocimum sanctum L. have significant antibacterial activity and it could be very useful in the discovery of novel antibacterial/antimicrobial agents.en_US
dc.identifier.citationGoyal Pankaj, Kaushik Purshotam. In vitro Evaluation of Antibacterial Activity of Various Crude Leaf Extracts of Indian Sacred Plant, Ocimum sanctum L. British Microbiology Research Journal. 2011 July; 1(3): 70-78.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://imsear.searo.who.int/handle/123456789/162803
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.source.urihttps://sciencedomain.org/abstract/193en_US
dc.subjectOcimum sanctumen_US
dc.subjectIndian sacred planten_US
dc.subjectresistanceen_US
dc.subjectantibioticsen_US
dc.subjectnatural productsen_US
dc.subjectantibacterial potentialen_US
dc.subjectsusceptibility assayen_US
dc.subjectminimum inhibitory concentrationen_US
dc.titleIn vitro Evaluation of Antibacterial Activity of Various Crude Leaf Extracts of Indian Sacred Plant, Ocimum sanctum L.en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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