Evaluation of antibacterial activity and synergistic effect between antibiotic and the essential oils of some medicinal plants

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• 作者：Fadila Moussaoui ; ^{moussaoui.fadila@gmail.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Tajelmolk Alaoui
• 关键词：Essential oils ; Antibacterial ; Synergies ; Additive ; Antagonistic
• 刊名：Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：January 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：6
• 期：1
• 页码：32-37
• 全文大小：314 K

文摘

To demonstrate the in vitro antibacterial properties of five essential oils against ten bacterial strains and study the synergistic effect of the combination of essential oils with standard antibiotics.

Methods

Origanum compactum, Chrysanthemum coronarium, Thymus willdenowii Boiss, Melissa officinalis and Origanum majorana L. were used alone and combined used with standard antibiotics to evaluate their antimicrobial activities. The disk diffusion method was employed.

Results

The results showed that the combined application of the essential oils of the plants with antibiotics led to a synergistic effect in some cases, but antagonistic effect was also observed in some bacteria.

Conclusions

This study shows that the combination of essential oils of the five plants with antibiotics may be useful in the fight against emerging microbial drug resistance.