Effect of Ethanolic extract of Aloe vera gel on certain common clinical pathogens

Authors

  • Halima Begum Department of Pharmacology, Enam Medical College, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Sadia Choudhury Shimmi Department of Biomedical Science and therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Sabah, Malaysia
  • Mahfuza Mazeda Rowshan Department of Pharmacology, Sir Salimullah Medical College and Mitford Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Sayeda Khanom Department of Pharmacology, Central International Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51200/bjms.v10i2.626

Keywords:

Aloe vera, drug resistance, antibacterials.

Abstract

Antimicrobial activity of ethanolic extract of Aloe vera were observed against Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus pyogenes, Staphylococcus saprophyticus, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumoniae . Aloe vera leaf gel was used for ethanolic extraction.Zones of inhibition in millimeter was used to measure the antimicrobial effect. Antimicrobial susceptibility test showed that ethanolic extract has growth inhibitory effects against the tested pathogens. Ethanolic extract of Aloe vera has growth inhibitory effects against tested pathogen seen by antimicrobial susceptibility testing

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Published

2023-05-18

How to Cite

Begum, H., Shimmi, S. C., Rowshan, M. M., & Khanom, S. (2023). Effect of Ethanolic extract of Aloe vera gel on certain common clinical pathogens. Borneo Journal of Medical Sciences (BJMS), 10(2), 19–25. https://doi.org/10.51200/bjms.v10i2.626

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2016): BORNEO JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES VOLUME 10, ISSUE 2, 2016

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The copyright of the article belongs to the authors, who retain ownership of their work published in the journal. Their work is distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license

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