Table 2.
Antibacterial activity of Cupressus funebris essential oil against some common infection causing bacteria.
| Bacterial strain (cat. no.) | Zone of inhibition (mm) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essential oil (μg/ml) | Penicillin | Amoxycillin | Ciprofloxacin | MIC (mg/ml) | MBC (mg/ml) | |
| Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) (ATCC6538) | 10.5 | 36.1 | 31.4 | 31.7 | 4.5 | 6.2 |
| E. coli (ATCC-12344) | 12.4 | 31.2 | 36.2 | 32.9 | 4.1 | 7.6 |
| Streptococcus faecalis (ATCC19115) | 16.1 | 34.2 | 26.5 | 24.5 | 5.1 | 9.8 |
| Pseudomonas aeruginosa (ATCC27853) | 13.2 | 25.2 | 22.6 | 23.1 | 8.1 | 7.6 |
| Klebsiella pneumoniae ATCC46117 | 17.6 | 38.1 | 33.1 | 36.5 | 6.3 | 6.2 |
| Haemophilus influenzae ATCC-33391 | 26.2 | 23.5 | 31.2 | 27.2 | 4.2 | 4.8 |