Antimicrobial Effect of Cyclamen persicum Tuber Extracts Against Bacteria and Candida Species

The antimicrobial resistant microorganisms will take us again to an era where a simple infection could lead to serious illness and death, interest in using medicinal plants as a source of new antimicrobials has increased. Cyclamen persicum is a traditional medicinal plant that showed to have some me...

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Published in:	Journal of pure & applied microbiology : an international research journal of microbiology Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 107 - 116
Main Authors:	Al-zuabe, Mu'ad, Ismail, Yazan, Hasan, Diya, Alhrout, Hussein, Al-Zeidaneen, Safaa, Albawarshi, Yanal, Abu-Hamra, Eman
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Oriental Scientific Publishing Company 01-03-2019 Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology
Subjects:	Acetone antimicrobial effect Bacteria Bacterial pneumonia cyclamen persicum tubers Drug resistance in microorganisms Health aspects Medicinal plants Medicine, Botanic Medicine, Herbal Methanol Methicillin Pneumonia saponin
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Summary:	The antimicrobial resistant microorganisms will take us again to an era where a simple infection could lead to serious illness and death, interest in using medicinal plants as a source of new antimicrobials has increased. Cyclamen persicum is a traditional medicinal plant that showed to have some medicinal effects. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the antimicrobial effect of C. persicum tuber water, acetone, ethanol and methanol extracts on different pathogenic bacteria and candida. It was found that C. persicum tuber acetone, ethanol and methanol extracts have antibacterial effect on many Gram positive and Gram negative bacteria specially S. pyogenes, S. aureus, E. faecalis, P. mirabilis, K. pneumoniae, E. cloacae, P. aeruginosa and S. flexneri. C. persicum tuber acetone, ethanol and methanol extracts also showed great antifungal effect against all Candida used in this study. The study also reported extracting saponin from C. persicum tubers methanol extract. Keywords: Cyclamen persicum tubers, Antimicrobial effect, Saponin.
ISSN:	0973-7510 2581-690X
DOI:	10.22207/JPAM.13.1.11