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<Journal-Info>
<name>International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences</name>
<website>ijpbs.net</website>
<email>editorijpbs@rediffmail.com (or) editorofijpbs@yahoo.com (or) prasmol@rediffmail.com</email>
</Journal-Info>
<article>
<article-id pub-id-type='other'>10.22376/ijpbs.2019.10.1.p1-12</article-id>
<issue_number>Volume 8 Issue 2</issue_number>
<issue_period>2017 (April - June)</issue_period>
<title><b>Antibacterial properties of honey and green tea extracts against multi-drug resistant <i>streptococcus mutans </i>isolated from dental plaque samples</b></title>
<abstract> lessThan i greaterThan Streptococcus mutans lessThan /i greaterThan  is the major etiological agent for the dental plaque formation. A study on the occurrence of multidrug resistant (MDR)  lessThan i greaterThan Streptococcus mutans lessThan /i greaterThan  and control of  lessThan i greaterThan S. mutans lessThan /i greaterThan  isolated from dental caries patients against green tea and honey extracts among the Bangalore urban population as lessThan b greaterThan   lessThan /b greaterThan in search of alternate therapy for dental caries. lessThan b greaterThan   lessThan /b greaterThan In this study, 118 dental plaque samples were collected and 87 were identified as MDR  lessThan i greaterThan S. mutans lessThan /i greaterThan  isolates by using biochemical tests, Disc-diffusion test against commercial antibiotics and antibacterial property of green tea &amp; honey against 10 MDR  lessThan i greaterThan S. mutans  lessThan /i greaterThan  isolates was done by using agar well diffusion method. The zone diameters (mm) of each isolate against selected antibiotics obtained were noted and compared with reference antibiotics namely ciprofloxacin, erythromycin and penicillin G. The zone diameters of Green tea organic and aqueous extracts were ranged from 14mm to 29mm. Similarly, for Honey extracts it ranged from 4-18mm. The antibiograms of green tea extracts has revealed that the MDR  lessThan i greaterThan S. mutans  lessThan /i greaterThan is sensitive to these at 100mg/ml concentration. The antibiograms of honey with different dilutions has revealed that, with dilution the activity got reduced and found sensitive with no dilution. The MIC of green tea and honey used were found to be 70mg/ml and 100mg/ml respectively with 50µl loaded to the wells. The study revealed that the Green tea and Honey were equally effective to ciprofloxacin and erythromycin in controlling MDR  lessThan i greaterThan S. mutans. lessThan /i greaterThan </abstract>
<authors>CHOWDAIAH. M AND DHAMODHAR. P</authors>
<keywords>Dental caries, Multi-drug resistance, Well-diffusion, Alternate therapy, Green tea and Honey extracts.</keywords>
<pages>547-552</pages>
</article>
</Journal>
