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A Comparative Evaluation of Antimicrobial Effect of Thymus capitatus Ethanolic Extract on the Different Respiratory Tract Infections Isolates

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dc.contributor.author Hassan G.
dc.contributor.author Karamova N.
dc.contributor.author Mraheil M.
dc.contributor.author Mohamed W.
dc.contributor.author Chakraborty T.
dc.contributor.author Ilinskaya O.
dc.date.accessioned 2018-04-05T07:10:35Z
dc.date.available 2018-04-05T07:10:35Z
dc.date.issued 2017
dc.identifier.issn 2191-1630
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.kpfu.ru/xmlui/handle/net/130537
dc.description.abstract © 2017, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. Natural components, particularly those derived from medicinal plants, provide a promising source of new antimicrobial agents for the treatment of respiratory infections. In this work, we studied the antimicrobial potency of Thymus capitatus ethanolic extract against nine microorganisms isolated from clinical material obtained from patients admitted to hospitals in Egypt and Germany with infections of the respiratory tract (bacterial sinusitis, laryngitis, pharyngitis and bronchitis) using the disc diffusion assay and minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values. All isolates obtained from the Giessen University Clinic (Germany) exhibit susceptibility of different extent to the plant extract tested. The growth inhibition zone diameters for nine strains were in the range of 13–15.5 mm at a concentration of 5 mg/disc. The extract produced large inhibition zones of 14–17 mm diameters for seven microbial strains obtained in Egypt although it failed to inhibit the growth of isolates of Staphylococcus epidermidis and Enterococcus faecalis. In fact, most of the respiratory tract infections isolates from Egypt were generally more susceptible to the ethanolic extract of Thymus capitatus at lower MIC values than those obtained from Giessen University Clinic MIC values. The results of this study suggest that further delineation of bioactive phytomolecules of Thymus capitatus ethanolic extract will improve their potential application for the treatment of respiratory tract diseases.
dc.relation.ispartofseries BioNanoScience
dc.subject Antimicrobial activity
dc.subject Minimum inhibitory concentration
dc.subject Plant extract
dc.subject Respiratory tract infections
dc.subject Thymus capitatus
dc.title A Comparative Evaluation of Antimicrobial Effect of Thymus capitatus Ethanolic Extract on the Different Respiratory Tract Infections Isolates
dc.type Article
dc.relation.ispartofseries-issue 4
dc.relation.ispartofseries-volume 7
dc.collection Публикации сотрудников КФУ
dc.relation.startpage 644
dc.source.id SCOPUS21911630-2017-7-4-SID85036610786


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    Коллекция содержит публикации сотрудников Казанского федерального (до 2010 года Казанского государственного) университета, проиндексированные в БД Scopus, начиная с 1970г.

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