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ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF THE CRUDE EXTRACT OF CUSCUTA REFLEXA ROXB.

N. ANJUM AND Z. KHAN

Abstract: The present work was carried out to study the comparative antimicrobial activity of pure solvents, standard antibiotic discs viz. Amikacine, Ciprofloxacin, Griseofulvin and solvent extracts of Cuscuta reflexa against Gram (-) bacteria viz. Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli, Gram (+) bacteria viz. Bacillus subtilis, Bacilus licheniformis and fungi viz. Aspergillus niger, Trichoderma ressei. On the whole all the crude solvent extracts were found to be more resistant against test organisms. Chloroform and petroleum ether extracts appeared to be the most effective antifungal and antibacterial agents.

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