Table 4.

The antibacterial activity of ARLE (100 mg/mL/disc) related to Ampicillin and Gentamicin based on the growth inhibition and disc diffusion method of bacterial isolates.

Bacterial isolates Treatments		B. cereus	S. aureus	E. coli	P. aeruginosa
ARLE	IZ mm	28a ± 0.54	26a,b ± 0.94	9.2f. ± 0.88	11.8e ± 0.69
	%MGI	37 ± 0.56	35 ± 0.56	94.4 ± 0.71	92 ± 0.82
Ampicillin	IZ mm	18c ± 0.56	15d ± 0.56	0.00	0.00
	%MGI	87 ± 0.56	75 ± 0.56	0.00	0.00
Gentamicin	IZ mm	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
	%MGI	0.00	0.00	64.4 ± 0.71	72 ± 0.82

IZ mm Inhibition Zone diameter. (%) Mean growth inhibition percentage, % MGI = Mean growth inhibition percentage (O.D.620). Each value is mean by 3 replicates ± standard error. Values with the same letter do not differ significantly from each other, according to¹⁷, at a 5% level.