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Table 2.

Antimicrobial activities of dichloromethane organic crude extracts from the selected marine sponges against the tested human pathogenic fungi and bacteria along the Kenyan coastline.

		Dichloromethane extracts inhibition zone diameters (mm)
		Fungi	Gram-negative bacteria		Gram-positive bacteria
Sample ID	Sponge species	*Candida albicans*	*Escherichia coli*	*Pseudomonas aeruginosa*	*Staphylococcus aureus*
CYKu 002	Carteriospongia foliascens	31.33 ± 1.2^abc	26.00 ± 1.2^a	23.33 ± 2.6^abcde	28.67 ± 1.8^a
GYM 009	Callyspongia fallax	8.33 ± 0.3^bc	10.33 ± 0.9^fg	8.67 ± 0.3^fg	10.00 ± 0.6^cde
BRKa 005	Paratetilla arcifera	0.00 ± 0.0^c	0.00 ± 0.0^g	0.00 ± 0.0^g	0.00 ± 0.0^e
Positive control		29.33 ± 1.5^ab	31.67 ± 0.7^ab	31.22 ± 0.6^ab	31.11 ± 0.2^ab
Negative control		0.00 ± 0.0^c	0.00 ± 0.0^g	0.00 ± 0.0^g	0.00 ± 0.0^e