ANTIMICROBIAL SCREENING OF ROOTS.

Abstract

It was previously shown that some parts of , which is commonly known as oud or oodh, such as roots have been used as a traditional medical herbal in different countries. In Turkey is one of the ingredients while preparing famous Mesir paste, which was invented as a medicinal paste and used from the Ottoman period to now at least for 500 years. The identification the antimicrobial activity of ethanol extract of roots is main purpose of this analysis.

By using 17 bacteria and 1 fungi, which include Bacillus, Candida, Enterobacter, Enterococcus, Escherichia, Klebsiella, Listeria, Pseudomonas, Salmonella and Staphylococcus genera, the activity of root extracts were analysed by the help of the disk diffusion method, that is one of the methods commonly used to determine antimicrobial activities.

As a result of the study it was observed that ethanol extracts of roots have a clear antimicrobial activity against nearly all microorganism used in the study, but only two bacteria namely ATCC 25922 and SL 1344.

According to the disk diffusion test results it may be possible to propose that roots should have a medicinal uses especially against , ATCC 7644, DSMZ 1971, DSMZ 1386, DSMZ 20044 and ATCC 25923.