Antimicrobial Activity of Geranium Oil against Clinical Strains of Staphylococcus aureus

The aim of this work was to investigate the antibacterial properties of geranium oil obtained from Pelargonium graveolens Ait. (family Geraniaceae), against one standard S. aureus strain ATCC 433000 and seventy clinical S. aureus strains. The agar dilution method was used for assessment of bacterial...

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Autores principales: Bigos, Monika, Wasiela, Małgorzata, Kalemba, Danuta, Sienkiewicz, Monika
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6268326/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22929626
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules170910276
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author Bigos, Monika
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description The aim of this work was to investigate the antibacterial properties of geranium oil obtained from Pelargonium graveolens Ait. (family Geraniaceae), against one standard S. aureus strain ATCC 433000 and seventy clinical S. aureus strains. The agar dilution method was used for assessment of bacterial growth inhibition at various concentrations of geranium oil. Susceptibility testing of the clinical strains to antibiotics was carried out using the disk-diffusion and E-test methods. The results of our experiment showed that the oil from P. graveolens has strong activity against all of the clinical S. aureus isolates—including multidrug resistant strains, MRSA strains and MLS(B)-positive strains—exhibiting MIC values of 0.25–2.50 μL/mL.
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spelling pubmed-62683262018-12-12 Antimicrobial Activity of Geranium Oil against Clinical Strains of Staphylococcus aureus Bigos, Monika Wasiela, Małgorzata Kalemba, Danuta Sienkiewicz, Monika Molecules Article The aim of this work was to investigate the antibacterial properties of geranium oil obtained from Pelargonium graveolens Ait. (family Geraniaceae), against one standard S. aureus strain ATCC 433000 and seventy clinical S. aureus strains. The agar dilution method was used for assessment of bacterial growth inhibition at various concentrations of geranium oil. Susceptibility testing of the clinical strains to antibiotics was carried out using the disk-diffusion and E-test methods. The results of our experiment showed that the oil from P. graveolens has strong activity against all of the clinical S. aureus isolates—including multidrug resistant strains, MRSA strains and MLS(B)-positive strains—exhibiting MIC values of 0.25–2.50 μL/mL. MDPI 2012-08-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6268326/ /pubmed/22929626 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules170910276 Text en © 2012 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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