Table 2.

Inhibition of parasite growth by natural plant preparations

Sample	% Inhibition
	Human T. vaginalis (G3)	Feline T. foetus (C1)	Bovine T. foetus (D1)
60% Catechin green tea extract	14.2 ± 7.4a	0.0 ± 8.3a	1 ± 18a
80% Catechin green tea extract	27.7 ± 5.0	0.0 ± 9.2a	7 ± 20
Low-theaflavin black tea extract	39.3 ± 1.9	3.1 ± 6.3	27 ± 22
High-theaflavin black tea extract	87.1 ± 2.6	18 ± 19	41 ± 13
Pomegranate fruit extract	41.2 ± 3.2	8 ± 14	0 ± 14b
Pomegranate seed	14 ± 10a	6.8 ± 4.5	1 ± 21a,b
Jujube fruit	3.5 ± 1.7	0.0 ± 9.8a	0 ± 12b
Jujube seed	6.2 ± 5.3	0.0 ± 7.2a	0.0 ± 8.5b
Red wine grape extract	8.2 ± 4.0	0.0 ± 9.4a	0 ± 11b
Grape seed extract	10.2 ± 2.3	13 ± 15	0.0 ± 5.1b

Numbers within columns sharing a common superscript letter are not significantly different, P < 0.05