Research Article

Antimicrobial Activity of Various Extracts of Centaurea balsamita Lam. And Centaurea coronopifolia Lam.

Volume: 2 Number: 2 September 30, 2022
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Antimicrobial Activity of Various Extracts of Centaurea balsamita Lam. And Centaurea coronopifolia Lam.

Abstract

Members of Centaurea have been widely used to treat various diseases in Turkish folk medicine. In this research, the antimicrobial activities of the chloroform, ethyl acetate, acetone, and ethanol extracts from Centaurea balsamita Lam. and Centaurea coronopifolia Lam. were investigated against some bacteria (Bacillus cereus ATCC 14579, Bacillus subtilis ATCC 6633, Escherichia coli ATCC 25922, Escherichia coli ATCC 29988, Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 25923, Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 6538, Salmonella typhimurium ATCC 14028, Streptococcus salivarius RSHE 606) by microdilutation method. The results showed that the extracts have antimicrobial activity of different range against the test microorganisms used in this study. The chloroform extract of C. balsamita showed the highest antimicrobial activity against B. cereus strain (0,039 µg/mL). Also, all the extracts used in this study have significant antimicrobial activity against S. aureus strains (20 µg/mL), except the ethanol extracts which had lower activity.

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Thanks

The authors thank Dr. Osman Tugay and Dr. Tuna Uysal from Selçuk University for their help in identifying the plants.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Structural Biology

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

September 30, 2022

Submission Date

August 12, 2022

Acceptance Date

September 7, 2022

Published in Issue

Year 2022 Volume: 2 Number: 2

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[1]N. Yıldırım, M. Akın, and H. Taner Saraçoğlu, “Antimicrobial Activity of Various Extracts of Centaurea balsamita Lam. And Centaurea coronopifolia Lam”., Etoxec, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 107–114, Sept. 2022, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA73RN39YX