Green Global
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INVESTIGATION ON ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITIES OF THE TWO SELECTED SHRUBS FROM THE SUNDARBANS (Clerodendrum inerme and Caesalpinia crista) (Pages : 62 - 69)

Use of plant based drugs and chemicals for curing various ailments and personal adornment is as old as human civilization. Plants and plant-based medicaments are the basis of many of the modern pharmaceuticals we use today for various ailments. The aim of the study was to evaluate the antimicrobial activity of Clerodendrum inerme (Family: Verbenaceae) and Caesalpinia crista (Family: Leguminosaceae), two widely distributed shrubs of the Sundarbans mangrove forest. The in vitro antimicrobial activity was tested against E. coli, Shigella flexneri, Shigella dysenteriae, Vibrio cholerae, Salmonella paratyphi, Proteus spp., Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermis using disc diffusion assay where the chloroformic bark extract of of C. inerme showed excellent performance against E. coli. The chloroformic extracts of bark of C. crista also showed significant activity against V. cholera, S. dysenteriae and E. coli.Download