Table 2.
Antimicrobial preliminary screening of endophytic (EE) and epiphytic (E) bacterial isolates against standard and clinical pathogens
| Isolate code | Standard strains | MDR clinical isolates | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C. albicans ATCC 14,053 | S. aureus ATCC 25,923 | E. coli ATCC 25,922 | E. coli | P. aeruginosa | A. baumannii | K. pneumoniae | K. terrigena | |
| ER1 | + | - | - | + | - | - | - | - |
| ER2 | + | + | - | + | - | - | - | - |
| EER3 | + | - | + | + | - | - | - | - |
| EES4 | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
| EES5 | + | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| EL6 | + | + | + | + | + | + | - | - |
| EER7 | + | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| EES8 | + | + | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| ER9 | + | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| EER10 | + | - | - | - | - | + | - | - |
| EEL11 | + | + | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| ES12 | + | + | + | + | + | + | - | - |
| ES13 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| ES14 | + | + | - | - | - | - | N/A | N/A |
| ES15 | + | + | - | - | - | - | N/A | N/A |
| EES16 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
+: Inhibits growth, -: no inhibition, N/A: not performed, EES4 showed activity against all the tested microbial strains and was selected for further experiments.