Antibacterial activity of five Peruvian medicinal plants against Pseudomonas aeruginosa

• Published in: Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine
• Main Authors: Gabriela Ulloa-Urizar, Miguel Angel Aguilar-Luis, María del Carmen De Lama-Odría, José Camarena-Lizarzaburu, Juana del Valle Mendoza
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2015
• Subjects: Pseudomonas; Medicinal plants; Maytenus macrocarpa; Dracontium loretense Krause; Tabebuia impetiginosa; Eucalyptus; Uncaria tomentosa; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Biology (General); QH301-705.5; Arctic; Gato
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apjtb.2015.07.016; https://doaj.org/article/f3294c28d127479ea29db33568520b98

Objective: To evaluate the susceptibility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) in vitro to the ethanolic extracts obtained from five different Peruvian medicinal plants. Methods: The plants were chopped and soaked in absolute ethanol (1:2, w/v). The antibacterial activity of compounds against P...