Antimicrobial Activity of Some Essential Oils Against Pseudomonas aeruginosa
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- 10.2991/978-94-6463-020-6_4How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Multidrug resistance; Essential oil; Antimicrobial activity; MIC; Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Abstract
The emergence of multidrug resistance in bacteria due to overuse of antibiotics is becoming an important health concern in recent years, which requires development of novel alternatives to fight against these bacteria. Essential oils (EOs) are secondary metabolites that have different components and chemical compositions which may provide promising solution to the problem of rising number of drug resistant bacteria, as they can effectively kill bacteria. Here, in this study our aim is to determine the efficacy of lemongrass, rosemary, clary sage, geranium and tea tree essential oil against Pseudomonas aeruginosa, using agar well diffusion method. The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of these EOs were also determined. The chemical composition of these essential oils were known by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analysis. It was revealed in this study that most of the essential oils show antimicrobial property against the test bacterium. The MIC of lemongrass is 0.25% (v/v), rosemary is 1% (v/v), clary sage is 2% (v/v), geranium is 0.5% (v/v) and for tea tree oil is 1% (v/v). We can infer from this data that lemongrass, rosemary, clary sage, geranium and tree oil can be utilized to treat infections caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which is a gram-negative bacterium.
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TY - CONF AU - Anmol Srivastava AU - Vivek Kumar AU - Vishnu Agarwal PY - 2022 DA - 2022/12/14 TI - Antimicrobial Activity of Some Essential Oils Against Pseudomonas aeruginosa BT - Proceedings of the conference BioSangam 2022: Emerging trends in Biotechnology (BIOSANGAM 2022) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 27 EP - 34 SN - 2468-5747 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-020-6_4 DO - 10.2991/978-94-6463-020-6_4 ID - Srivastava2022 ER -