Antibacterial and Antifungal Activities of Essential Oils from Satureia Biflora D. Don, Benth, Speng (Chepsagitiet). Lippia Javanica Burm. F.(Labotuet) and Toddalia asiatica (L) Lam. Rutaceae (Chepindoruet)
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Date
2014
Authors
Okemo, P. O.
Omari, Amuka
Machocho, Alex K.
Mbugua, Paul K.
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Global Journals Inc
Abstract
Three plants, parts used, by the Ogiek community as medicines were collected from Marioshoni
in the Mau Forest Complex in the Rift Valley of Kenya, idenfied at the National Museums in Nairobi; S.
biflora Voucher No.AO/08/12/12/2006 L. javanica O/015/NMK/06/12/2007 T. asiatica Voucher No.
AO/017/NMK/04/07/2007. Each plant species was steam distilled individually. All yielded oils that were
separately assayed against some known pathogens that inflict maladies in humans. The two species
showed some markable antimicrobial activities for instance, S. biflora was effective against S. aureus, K.
pneumoniae and E. coli including all their drug resistant strains. The essential oils from all the three plant
species possessed activities against all the strains of S. aureus, different zones of inhibitions L. javanica is
amongst other medicinal essential oils that have been studied elsewhere and proved useful medically.
However, S. biflora which has varied activities when screened in the laboratory in vitro has not been
studied exhaustively. The plant oil extracts gave promising results against both Gram-ve and Gram +ve
bacteria. T. asiatica showed good activities against the bacteria and some known pathogenic fungi
Further studies on wet bench chemistry and GC showed known classes of compounds which are of
known medicinal values
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Keywords
nosocomial, opportunistic, infections, essential oils phytomedicine, drugs
Citation
Global Journal of Science Frontier Research: B Chemistry Volume 14 Issue 4 Version 1.0 Year 2014