Table 4 Antimicrobial activity of the different extracts of C. equistefolia needles against Staphylococcus aureus (ATCC 12600) and Bacillus subtilis (ATCC 6051) were used as Gram-positive bacteria; Escherichia coli (ATCC 11775) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (ATCC 10145) were used as Gram-negative; Candida albicans (ATCC 7102) and Aspergillus flavus (ATCC 9643) were used as fungal species
Samples | Inhibition zone diameter (mm/mg Sample) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bacterial species | Fungal species | ||||||
G+ | G ˉ | ||||||
B. subtilis | S. aureus | E. coli | P. aeruginosa | A. flavus | C. albicans | ||
Standards | Ampicillin | 31 | 24 | 30 | 28 | - | - |
Amphotericin B | - | - | - | - | 16 | 21 | |
Chloroform extract (7 CE) | 12 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
Ethyl acetate extract (8 CE) | 13 | 16 | 13 | 12 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
Butanol extract (9 CE) | 13 | 14 | 12 | 12 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
Methanol extract (10 CE) | 12 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
Mother liquor (11CE) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
Hexane extract (12 CE) | 13 | 15 | 13 | 12 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |