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Table 4 Antibacterial activity of Z.zerumbet extracts (three month leaf and nine month rhizome and stem) and antibiotics against bacterial strains

From: Variation in secondary metabolite production as well as antioxidant and antibacterial activities of Zingiber zerumbet (L.) at different stages of growth

Bacterial Strains

 

Inhibition zone (mm)

Leaf

Stem

Rhizome

Gentamicin

Ciprofloxacin

DMSO:water (1:9 v/v)

Staphylococcus aureus

8.7 ± 0.291a

1.4 ± 0.173d

7.3 ± 0.337b

6.5 ± 0.277c

7.3 ± 0.276b

NO

Bacillus subtilis

5.1 ± 0.188c

1.2 ± 0.229e

5.9 ± 0.121a

5.6 ± 0.114b

4.8 ± 0.129d

NO

Listeria monocytogenes

1.0 ± 0.164d

NO

1.8 ± 0.367c

4.0 ± 0.127ab

4.2 ± 0.119a

NO

Escherichia coli

1.5 ± 0.146c

NO

3.5 ± 0.322b

5.4 ± 0.318a

5.5 ± 0.337a

NO

Salmonella typhimurium

4.1 ± 0.267d

NO

5.3 ± 0.379c

7.2 ± 0.272a

6.8 ± 0.252b

NO

Pseudomonas aeruginosa

5.6 ± 0.218c

NO

7.0 ± 0.381a

6.2 ± 0.365b

6.7 ± 0.322a

NO

  1. All analyses are the mean of triplicate measurements ± standard deviation. Means not sharing a common letter in each row were significantly different at P ≤ 0.05; NO: not observed