In vitro Antimicrobial Activity of Tissue Extracts of Puffer fish Arothron immaculatus Against Clinical Pathogens
An antimicrobial validatory screening of puffer fish is done in such a way Arothron immaculatus a puffer fish skin and liver extracts were subjected for antimicrobial assay. Antimicrobial screening assay was done in ten consecutive human pathogenic bacterial and fungal pathogens using the standard d...
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Published in | Chinese journal of natural medicines Vol. 9; no. 6; pp. 446 - 449 |
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Main Authors | , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Elsevier B.V
2011
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Summary: | An antimicrobial validatory screening of puffer fish is done in such a way
Arothron immaculatus a puffer fish skin and liver extracts were subjected for antimicrobial assay.
Antimicrobial screening assay was done in ten consecutive human pathogenic bacterial and fungal pathogens using the standard disc diffusion method.
The results confirmed a positive test against most of the pathogens used. Maximum antimicrobial effect against
Staphyloccocus aureus of 2.5 mm in liver extract and 9.8 mm of antibacterial effect against
Vibrio cholera in skin extract is reported. There is no antifungal effect.
This experiment confirms that puffer fish is a source of antimicrobial potence. |
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Bibliography: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3724/SP.J.1009.2011.00446 ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 1875-5364 1875-5364 |
DOI: | 10.3724/SP.J.1009.2011.00446 |