ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF THE ESSENTIAL OIL OF LEAVES AND TWIGS OF AEGLE MARMELOS

Authors

  • H.P. KAUR Department of Chemistry, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab-144402
  • AMAN RAWA Department of Chemistry, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab-144402

Keywords:

Aegle marmelos, Rutaceae, leaves and twigs essential oil; antibacterial activity and antifungal activity.

Abstract

Aegle marmelos is used extensively in traditional medicine. The antibacterial and antifungal activity of essential oils from leaves and twigs was screened against 13 human pathogenic bacteria and 7 human pathogenic fungi. The oil obtained from twigs exhibited potent broad spectrum activity against Bacillus subtilis, Streptococcus mutans, Staphylococcus epidermis, Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus faecalis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Salmonella typhimurium, Yersinia enterocolitca, Mycobacterium smegmatis, Enterobacter aerogenes and it also showed activity against two fungi Sporothrix schenckii and Aspergillus flavus.

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30.06.2016

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H.P. KAUR, & AMAN RAWA. (2016). ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF THE ESSENTIAL OIL OF LEAVES AND TWIGS OF AEGLE MARMELOS. International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences, 7(2), 194–199. Retrieved from https://ijpbs.net/index.php/journal/article/view/4998

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Volume 7, Issue 2, 2016

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