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. 2020 Oct 8;11:561248. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2020.561248

Table 7.

Antibacterial potential of Terminalia sp.

Plant species/part Extraction procedure Pathogenic bacteria Antibacterial activity Reference
Terminalia arjuna (Roxb. ex DC.) Wight & Arn. bark Ethanol extraction B. cereus IZ = 7 mm (Saivaraj and Chandramohan, 2018)
Ethanol extraction P. aeruginosa  IZ = 8 mm
Ethanol extraction S aureus MIC = 1.56 mg/mL (Aneja et al., 2012)
Ethanol extraction E. coli MIC = 50 mg/mL
Ethanol extraction P. mirabilis MIC = 50 mg/mL
Terminalia arjuna (Roxb. ex DC.) Wight & Arn. leaf Ethanol extraction S. aureus MIC = 6.25 mg/mL (Aneja et al., 2012)
Ethanol extraction P. aeruginosa MIC = 50 mg/mL
Ethanol extraction P. mirabilis MIC = 6.25 mg/mL
Terminalia bellirica (Gaertn.) Roxb. fruit Direct aqueous extracts/Reflux method MRSA  MIC = 0.25 mg/mL (Dharmaratne et al., 2018)
Direct aqueous extracts/Reflux method MDR Acinetobacter sp. MIC = 0.5 mg/mL
Direct aqueous extracts/Reflux method MDR P. aeruginosa MIC = 0.5 mg/mL
Terminalia catappa L. leaf  Ethanol extraction B. subtilis MIC = 3 mg/mL (Suparno et al., 2018)
Ethanol extraction E. coli  MIC = 3 mg/mL
Ethanol extraction P. aeruginosa IZ = 1.83-6.5 mm (Allyn et al., 2018)
Ethanol extraction S. aureus IZ = 1.73-9.06 mm
Terminalia chebula Retz. fruit  Ethanol extraction Acinetobacter sp. MIC = 12.5 mg/mL (Sharma et al., 2012)
Ethanol extraction E. coli  MIC = 50 mg/mL
Ethanol extraction P. mirabilis MIC = 25 mg/mL
Ethanol extraction P. aeruginosa MIC = 12.5 mg/mL
Ethanol extraction S. aureus MIC = 3.12 mg/mL
Terminalia ferdinandiana Exell bark  Ethanol extraction B. cereus IZ = 13.2 mm (Akter et al., 2019)
Ethanol extraction MRSA    IZ = 12.7 mm
Terminalia ferdinandiana Exell fruit  Ethanol extraction B. cereus IZ = 17.8 mm
Ethanol extraction L. monocytogenes IZ = 18.5 mm
Ethanol extraction MRSA   IZ = 17.1 mm
Terminalia ferdinandiana Exell seed coat Ethanol extraction B. cereus IZ = 9.8 mm
Ethanol extraction L. monocytogenes IZ = 10.8 mm
Methanol extraction MRSA   IZ = 8.8 mm 
Terminalia glaucescens Planch. ex Benth. root Ethanol extraction E. aerogenes MIC = 100 mg/mL (Gbala and Anibijuwon, 2018)
Ethanol extraction K. pneumoniae MIC = 0.1 mg/mL
Ethanol extraction P. mirabilis   MIC = 100 mg/mL
Terminalia superba Engl. & Diels bark Methanol extraction E. coli    MIC = 0.078 mg/mL  (Kuete et al., 2010)
Methanol extraction K. pneumoniae MIC = 0.078 mg/mL
Methanol extraction M. tuberculosis MIC = 0.078 mg/mL
Methanol extraction P. aeruginosa  MIC = 0.019 mg/mL
Methanol extraction S. dysenteriae  MIC = 0.039 mg/mL
Methanol extraction S. typhi  MIC = 0.078 mg/mL
Ethanol extraction S. aureus MIC = 0.078 mg/mL  (Elvire et al., 2018)

IZ, inhibition zone.