Table 4.
In vitro antifungal bioassay (agar tube dilution protocol) results
Name of fungus | Linear growth (mm) |
% Inhibition |
MIC of the standard drug (μg/mL) |
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E2a | E3 | E4 | E5 | Negative control | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | Negative control | ||
Candida albicans | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Miconazole (108.00) |
Aspergillusflavus | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Amphotericine B (20.02) |
Microsporumcanis | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Miconazole (98.40) |
Fusariumsolani | 75 | 74 | 74 | 100 | 100 | 25 | 26 | 26 | 0 | 0 | Miconazole (73.25) |
aChloroform (E2), ethyl acetate (E3), n-butanolic (E4) and aqueous (E5) ftions
bConcentration extraction of samples = 400 μg/mL of DMSO; replicates = 3; incubation period = 7 days; incubation temperature = 28 ± 1°C.