Chemical composition and in vitro antimicrobial activity of matthiola tricuspidata ethanol extract

Abstract

It is widely acccptcd by scientists that innovation of new antimicrobial agents has extreme im-portance for the sake of the tiiturc of human beings; therefore the researches about the antimicrobial potentials of plant extracts and their biochemical composition have great importance. This present study aims to investigate the antimicrobial activity of Mat-thiola tricuspidata ethanol extract against several Gram-positive and Gram-negative microorganisms and Candida albicans by disk diffusion method, and to identity its chemical composition by GasChroma-tography-Mass Spectrometry. As a result, it was observed that the cxtract showed activity for all microorganisms excluding Enterobacter aerogenes ATCC 13048, Escherichia coli ATCC 25922, E. coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Salmonella infantis, and Salmonella typhimurium SL1344 and some chcmical compounds were dctcctcd, which may be responsible for the antimicrobial activity.