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. 2023 Mar 11;9(3):e14461. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e14461

Table 1.

Antibacterial properties of ethyl acetate extracts of X. spekei and G. tembensis (Fresen).

Treatment Mean zones of inhibition (mm)
X. spekeiextract
G. tembensis stem bark extract
Grewia tembensis leaf extract
S. aureus B. subtilis S. aureus S. aureus
5% DMSO 06.00 ± 0.00f 06.00 ± 0.00d 06.00 ± 0.00e 06.00 ± 0.00e
Ciprofloxacin (100 μg/ml) 26.33 ± 0.33a 29.67 ± 0.33a 26.33 ± 0.33a 26.33 ± 0.33a
Extracts (mg/ml)
100 14.67 ± 0.33b 14.33 ± 0.33b 12.33 ± 0.33b 11.67 ± 0.33b
50 13.33 ± 0.33b 13.33 ± 0.33b 10.33 ± 0.33c 10.00 ± 0.58bc
25 11.33 ± 0.33c 11.00 ± 0.58c 09.33 ± 0.33c 08.33 ± 0.33cd
12.5 09.67 ± 0.33cd 09.67 ± 0.33c 07.67 ± 0.33d 06.00 ± 0.00e
6.25 08.33 ± 0.67de 06.00 ± 0.00d 07.07 ± 0.07de 06.00 ± 0.00e
3.125 07.67 ± 0.33ef 06.00 ± 0.00d 06.00 ± 0.00e 06.00 ± 0.00e

Values of Mean Zones of Inhibition are expressed as Mean ± SEM. Values with the same superscript letter within the same column are not significantly different (p > 0.05) after one-way ANOVA followed by Tukey's post hoc test.