Antibacterial properties of parasitic mistletoe - Scurrula ferruginea (Jack) Danser of Brunei Darussalam

Natural products especially from plants have become subject of much interest in drug discovery. Scurrula ferruginea is parasitic mistletoe used traditionally to treat various illnesses. The aim of this study is to investigate the potential antibacterial effect of Scurrula ferruginea native to Brunei...

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Published in:IOP conference series. Earth and environmental science 2017-12, Vol.101 (1), p.12003
Main Authors: David, Sheba R, Adam, Amira Amni, Rajabalaya, Rajan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Ampicillin
Antibacterial activity
Dimethyl sulfoxide
E coli
Escherichia coli
Gentamicin
Natural products
Staphylococcus aureus
Strains (organisms)
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Summary:Natural products especially from plants have become subject of much interest in drug discovery. Scurrula ferruginea is parasitic mistletoe used traditionally to treat various illnesses. The aim of this study is to investigate the potential antibacterial effect of Scurrula ferruginea native to Brunei Darussalam. The plants were collected from Brunei-Muara district air-dried, pulverized into powder, extracted by water maceration and freeze dried. Later, the extract was screened by disc-diffusion assay for two bacterial strains. The positive controls were Gentamycin and Ampicillin for Staphylococcus aureus while Sulphamethoxazole was used for Escherichia coli. Dimethyl sulfoxide was the negative control for both strains. 100, 200 and 500 mg/ml of the extract were used for the assays. The extracts did not show any inhibition activity against Escherichia coli, while sulphamethoxazole, showed inhibition of 24 mm. Ampicillin, Gentamycin, 100 and 500 mg/ml extract exhibited 29, 20, 8.3 and 10.7 mm inhibition zone, respectively against Staphylococcus aureus. There was an increase in zone of inhibition on Staphylococcus aureus strain with increase in extract concentration. Further investigations including Minimum Inhibition Concentration and Minimum Bactericidal Concentration methods as well as investigation on additional bacterial strains will be conducted for confirmation of antibacterial effect of the extract.
ISSN:1755-1307
1755-1315
DOI:10.1088/1755-1315/101/1/012003