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Antibacterial activity of the essential oil from Cymbopogon nervatus inflorescence.

El-Kamali HH, Hamza MA, El-Amir MY

Department of Botany, Faculty of Science and Technology, Omdurman Islamic University, P.O. Box #382, Omdurman, Sudan. Manar_h5@hotmail.com

Antibacterial activity of essential oil of dried inflorescence of Cymbopogon nervatus was investigated. The essential oil remarkably inhibited the growth of tested bacteria except for Salmonella typhi. The maximum activity was against Shigella dysenteriae and Klebsiella pneumoniae.

Published 4 July 2005 in Fitoterapia, 76(5): 446-9.
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