IN VITRO ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY SCREENING OF XYLARIA HYPOXYLON

Abstract

Fungi have a potential of using both as nutritive and medicinal food stuff. Because of containing several therapeutic agents, they are reported to be used for hundreds of years to treat several diseases caused by bacteria, fungi, viruses and parasites. The aim of this study is to determine the antimicrobial activity of , which were collected from Yomra, Trabzon, Turkey.samples were air dried and extracted by using ethanol. Antimicrobial activity of ethanol extracts were investigated against 21 bacterial and 2 fungal strains, namely, DSMZ 1971, ATCC 6633, ATCC 10231, DSMZ 1386, ATCC 13048, ATCC 29212, ATCC 25922, CFAI, ATCC 7644, DSMZ 50071, P1, ATCC 13075, SL 1344, ATCC 25923, MC1.B, DSMZ 20044 and DSMZ 6784 by using the disk diffusion method.It is observed that ethanol extracts of has antimicrobial activity against several Gram positive and Gram negative microorganisms tested. As a result of the study, an antimicrobial activity of found against most of strains used in the study.The results of our study clearly puts forward that could have a possible medicinal use.