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COMPARATIVE ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF DIFFERENT SPICES OF CASSIA L. IN SELECTIVE MICROORGANISM.
Manoj Kumar Ahirwar, Ritu Thakur Bais*
Department of Botany & Microbiology, Govt. MLB Girls P.G. (Auto.) College, Bhopal, M.P., India
ABSTRACT
The potential of higher plants as source for new drugs is still largely unexplored. Medicinal plants
represent a rich source of antimicrobial agents. In present investigation, there were three different plants
species of Cassia L. namely Cassia fistula L., C. tora L. and C. occidentalis L. were taken on the account
for investigation on antimicrobial activity of aqueous extracts of their leaves against some common
pathogenic gram +ve and gram –ve pathogenic bacterials strains. The leaves of three plant species namely
Cassia fistula L., C. tora L. and C. occidentalis L. were collected and subjected to soxhlet extraction
with distilled water to prepare aqueous extracts. 4 dilutions of 100 mg/ml stock of extract was used
to perform antimicrobial activity using Kirby-Bauer method. All the extracts were reported to
show their antimicrobial acitivtiy against the test Gram +ve & Gram –ve bacteria including
Pseudomonas aeruginosa (MTCC-*1934), Shigella flexneri (MTCC-1457), Escherichia coli (MTCC-
1687) Staphylococcus aureus (MTCC-737), Staphylococcus epidermidis (MTCC-3615) and Bacillus subtilis (MTCC-7164). The results of present investigation encourages the development of new therapeutic and antimicrobial drug of plant origin upon further extensive investigations.
Keywords: Cassia, antimicrobial activity, Phytodrug, natural therapeutics
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