Screening of selected Malaysian plants against several food borne pathogen bacteria

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Abdul Aziz, Siti Mutheerah and Low, C. N. and Chai, Lay Ching and Abdul Razak, Siti Shahrul Nazfah and Selamat, Jinap and Radu, Son and Sarker, Md Zaidul Islam and Khatib, Alfi (2011) Screening of selected Malaysian plants against several food borne pathogen bacteria. International Food Research Journal, 18 (3). pp. 1195-1201. ISSN 1985-4668; ESSN: 2231-7546

Abstract

This study was conducted to evaluate antimicrobial properties of ethanolic extracts of the leaves of Nephelium lappaceum, Curcuma longa, Cinnamomun cassia, Durio zibethinus, Vitex trifolia, Amaranthus tricolor, Syzygium samarangense and Manihot esculenta. Antibacterial properties of the extracts were studied against fifteen strains of different gram positive and gram negative pathogenic bacteria, including Bacillus cereus, Listeria monocytogenes, Staphylococcus aureus, Vibrio para, and Escherichia coli using the agar disk diffusion method. Among the tested extracts, only Amaranthus tricolor exhibited specific inhibition of one of the tested bacteria; Bacillus cereus. Using the microdilution method, its minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) value was determined to be 20 mg/mL.

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Item Type:	Article
Divisions:	Institute of Bioscience Faculty of Food Science and Technology
Publisher:	Faculty of Food Science and Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia
Keywords:	Antimicrobial activity; Food borne pathogens; Malaysian plants
Depositing User:	Najah Mohd Ali
Date Deposited:	27 Nov 2015 03:43
Last Modified:	27 Nov 2015 03:43
URI:	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/40703
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