Clinical Microbiology: Open Access

Antifungal activity of essential oil from Anethum graveolens L. on fungal species development

Joint Event on 17^th International Conference on Pharmaceutical Microbiology and Biotechnology & 23^rd Edition of International Conference on Immunology and Infectious Diseases

April 29-30, 2019 London, UK

Khaldi Achraf,B Meddah and A Moussaoui

University of Tahri Mohamed Bechar, Algeria University of Mascara, Algeria

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Clin Microbiol

Abstract:

This work studies the antifungal capacity of the essential oil of spontaneous aromatic plant with vocation medicinal used in the traditional treatments in the South-West of Algeria: Anethum graveolens L. The local plant tested gives a good essential oil yield (2.10%). The physico-chemical analysis of the essential oil of this plant species enables us to even characterize to identify our oil. Antifungal activity of the essential oil was studied witch respect to seven fungal strains with various concentrations. The results of direct contact method show that the oil of: Anethum graveolens L. is proven very effective on the mycelial growth of the moulds. All strains were inhibited at minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) as from 1/500 v/v, except Aspergillus niger at MIC (1/180 v/v). Alternaria alternata was most sensitive, being inhibited at MIC as weak as 1/6500 v/v. In addition to the growth of the mycelium, the essential oil of plant showed, in vitro, a antifungal activity at least important on the two other developmental stages, germination and the sporulation, of all fungi . All strains were inhibited at concentration as weak as 1/370 v/v.

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