Antibacterial Activity of Eucalpytus Citriodora Hk. Oil On Few Clinically Important Bacteria
Antibacterial Activity of Eucalpytus Citriodora Hk. Oil On Few Clinically Important Bacteria
Antibacterial Activity of Eucalpytus Citriodora Hk. Oil On Few Clinically Important Bacteria
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The antibacterial activity of Eucalyptus citriodora oil was evaluated. The volatile oil was extracted by
steam distillation method. The tested bacterial strains were Escherichia coli ATCC 25922,
Staphylococcus aureus, Proteus mirabilis NCIM2241, Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC27853, Proteus
vulgaris NCTC8313, Salmonella typhimurium, Enterobacter aerogenes ATCC13048, Pseudomonas
testosteroni NCIM 5098, Alcaligenes fecalis, Bacillus cereus ATCC11778 and Citrobacter freundii
ATCC10787. Piperacillin and Amikacin were used as the positive controls. The activity of the oil
increased with increase in concentration but decreased after a certain level. The study suggests that
isolation of the active compound from oil would give more satisfactory and promising results.
INTRODUCTION
Table 1. Antibacterial activity of Eucalyptus citriodora against few clinically important bacterial strains.
major medical problem, screening of natural products in a in the oil could be useful in understanding the relations
search for new antimicrobial agents that would be active between traditional cures and current medicines.
against these organisms (Zgoda and Porter, 2001) is the
need of the hour. Here in the present study, antibacterial
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