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Table 5.

Activity of partitioned fractions against six bacterial strains

Partitioned fractions	Zone of inhibition (mm)
Partitioned fractions	*E. coli*	*S. aurs*	*B. sub*	*M. leu*	*B. bron*	*S. set*
*(A)Q. dilatata***	9.3^l ±0.333	9.7^kl ± 0.33	9.7^kl ±0.33	10.2^jkl ±0.34	11.2^ghij ±0.17	9.3^l ±0.33
Hexane	-	-	-	-	-	-
Ethyl acetate	11.5^fghi ±0.28	11.2^ghij ±0.2	10.7^hijk ±0.3	9.7^kl ±0.3	10.7^hijk ±0.3	10^kl ±0.5
Chloroform	-	-	-	-	-	-
Acetone	12.5^ef ±0.3	13.9^d ±0.1	13.5^de ±0.28	14^d ±0.5	13.7^d ±0.8	12.3^f ±0.3
Ethanol	16^ab ±0.6	16.17^ab ±0.17	14.3^cd ±0.7	15.2^bc ±0.6	16.17^ab ±0.6	16.7^a ±0.3
50% methanol	10.5^ijk ±0.3	11.5^fghi ±0.28	11.7^fghi ±0.2	11.5^fghi ±0.3	12.5^ef ±0.5	12^fg ±0.28
R	13.5±0.3	25.4±0.3	11.2±0.4	10.8±0.4	31.5±0.8	10.5±0.3
C	32.8±0.4	35.9±0.6	31.8±0.2	29.6±0.4	18.17± 0.4	29.5±0.5
E. coli:-	Escherichia coli	B. sub:-	Bacillus subtillus		B. bron:-	Bordetella bronchiseptica
S. aur:-	Staphylococcus aureus	M. leu:-	Micrococcus luteus		S. set:-	Salmonella setuball
C	Cefixime	R	Roxithromycin		Conc	Concentrations

The data represents the mean values of three replicates ± represents standard deviation.

Letters ranging from a to k indicate respective Least Significant Difference rank orders of mean values. Values with similar letters are not significantly different from each other at p > 0.05.