Table 3.

Yield of extract (mg/g), cytotoxicity (LC₅₀) against Vero African green monkey kidney cells (mg/mL), minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC; mg/mL), total antifungal activity (TAA; yield/MIC) after 24 h incubation (ml/g), and selectivity indices (SI; LC₅₀/MIC) of the acetone extracts of different plant species and amphotericin B (positive control) against test fungi.

Plant Species	Yield	LC50	Candida albicans			Cryptococcus neoformans			Aspergillus fumigatus			Average
			MIC	TAA	SI	MIC	TAA	SI	MIC	TAA	SI	MIC	TAA	SI
A. altissima	42	0.17	0.16	269	1.12	0.31	134	0.56	0.16	269	1.12	0.21	224	0.93
A. artemisiifolia	101	0.02	0.16	646	0.11	0.63	162	0.03	1.25	81	0.01	0.68	296	0.05
C. canadensis	47	0.17	0.16	301	1.09	0.31	150	0.55	0.63	75	0.27	0.37	175	0.64
D. viscosa	63	0.03	0.16	403	0.22	0.31	202	0.11	0.63	101	0.05	0.37	235	0.13
E. annuus	66	0.15	0.31	211	0.46	0.31	211	0.46	1.25	53	0.12	0.62	158	0.35
X. strumarium	57	0.001	0.23	243	0.003	0.16	365	0.01	0.23	243	0.003	0.21	284	0.003
Average			0.20	346	0.50	0.34	204	0.29	0.69	137	0.26
Amphotericin B			8 × 10−3			8 × 10−3			8 × 10−3