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. 2009 Apr-Jun;28(4):10–12.

Antibacterial Activity of Leptadenia reticulata (Retz.) Wight. & Arn. (Asclepidaceae)

C Kalidass 1, M Glory 2, Francis Borgio 3, V S Manickam 1
PMCID: PMC3336335  PMID: 22557325

Abstract

Leptadenia reticulata of Asclepidaceae family is a shrub, originally property of Petroleum ether, Alcohol & Chloroform extract of L. reticulata. The antimicrobial testing was carried out by “Disc diffusion method”. Amongst the tested three extracts, chloroform extract showed high antimicrobial activity against E. coli, alcoholic extract showed high antibacterial activity against Pseudomonas aeruginosa, while Petroleum ether extract showed antibacterial activity against Klebsilla pneumonae

Keywords: Leptadenai reticulata, Asclepiadaceae, Medicinal plant, Antimicrobial activity

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