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- Title
Anti-fungal and Anti-Mycobacterial activity of plants of Nuevo Leon, Mexico.
- Authors
Garza, Blanca Alicia Alanis; Arroyo, Joel López; González, Gloria González; González, Elvira Garza; de Torres, Noemí Waksman; Aranda, Ricardo Salazar
- Abstract
Severe fungal infections, particularly those caused by Candida spp, have increased in recent decades and are associated with an extremely high rate of morbidity and mortality. Since plants are an important source of potentially bioactive compounds, in this work the antifungal activity of the methanol extracts of 10 plants (Acacia rigidula, Buddleja cordata, Cephalanthus occidentalis, Juglans nigra, Parkinsonia aculeata, Parthenium hysterophorus, Quercus canbyi, Ricinus communis, Salvia coccinea and Teucrium bicolor) were evaluated. The activity was evaluated according to the micro dilution assay described in CLSI M27-A protocol using some clinical isolates of different species of Candida (C. albicans, C. parapsilosis, C. tropicalis, C. krusei and C. glabrata). All extracts showed MIC values = 31.25µg/mL against at least one of the strains used, which is very interesting because it was crude extracts. Acacia rigidula (0.93-3.75µg/mL) and Quercus canbyi (0.93-7.5µg/mL) had antifungal activity against 7 strains with MIC values <8µg/mL in all cases. Furthermore excerpts activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (strain H37rv) was evaluated. Only Salvia coccinea and Teucrium bicolor showed MIC values125µg/mL by the method of MABA.
- Subjects
NUEVO Leon (Mexico : State); ANTIFUNGAL agents; ANTIBACTERIAL agents; CANDIDIASIS treatment; DEATH rate
- Publication
Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2017, Vol 30, Issue 1, p17
- ISSN
1011-601X
- Publication type
Article