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Antimicrobial activity of Hedychium spicatum.

Bisht GS, Awasthi AK, Dhole TN

Department of Microbiology, Sardar Bhagwan Singh Post Graduate Institute of Biomedical, Sciences and Research, Balawala, Dehradun, India. grsbhist@rediffmail.com

Extracts from rhizomes of Hedychium spicatum were tested for their antibacterial and antifungal activity. Essential oil, petroleum ether and chloroform extracts showed inhibitory activity against Gram (+) and Gram (-) bacterial cultures, including a strain of methicillin and vancomycin resistant Staphylococcus aureus and fungal cultures.

Published 25 April 2006 in Fitoterapia, 77(3): 240-2.
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