Journal
MOLECULES
Volume 17, Issue 9, Pages 10276-10291Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/molecules170910276
Keywords
antibacterial activity; geranium oil; MIC; multidrug resistant strains; Staphylococcus aureus
Funding
- Medical University of Lodz, Poland [502-03/5-018-02/502-54-014]
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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 MLSB-positive strains-exhibiting MIC values of 0.25-2.50 mu L/mL.
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