Evaluat
Evaluation of Antibacterial Properties of
Edible Oils and Extracts of A Native Plant, Ziziphora
Clinopodioides(Mountains’ Kakoty), on Bacteria Isolated From Urinary
Tract Infections
Younes
Anzabi1*, Vahid Badiheh Aghdam2, Masoud Hassanzadeh
Makoui3, Milad Anvarian3, Mir Naser Mousavinia3
1- Department of
Pathobiology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University,
Tabriz, Iran
2- Graduated of Medical
Sciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University,
Tabriz, Iran
3- Student of Veterinary
Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad
University, Tabriz, Iran
*
Corresponding Author: Younes
Anzabi; E-mail: [email protected]
Abstract: Essential
oils, plant extracts and their constituents have known anti-bacterial effects.
Wild Kakoty is a genus of Ziziphora and breed of mint. Despite the
heavy use of plants in the mint family flavors in Iran, systematic research
have been performed on antibacterial effects of the mountains’ Kakoty’s extract
on pathogenic bacteria. This studyaimed to investigate
the antibacterial activity of essential oil and methanol extract of mountains’ Kakoty on
somepathogenic
bacteria in laboratory culture and determination
of its minimum inhibitory concentrations and its ability to
kill bacteria. The results showed that the minimum inhibition
concentration for mountains’ Kakoty essence were 250 microgram/ml for most of
the gram-negative bacteria unless for Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Also the
gram-negative bacteria; Klebsiella pneumoniae had more sensitivity to
this essence comparing to the other species of gram-negative bacteria
and the minimum inhibitory concentration of gram-positive bacteria such as
Staphylococcus aureus was 250 microgram/ml even though, for other species of
Staphylococcus (coagulase negative) it was 500 micrograms per milliliter.The
results of the MIC determination of methanol extract of mountains’ Kakoty
showed that the essence has inhibitory and germicidal effect on all the under
test bacteria except Pseudomonas aeruginosa. These observations indicate
that the minimum germicidal concentration of the methanol extract of mountains’
Kakoty was 2000 microgram/ml for most of the gram-negative bacteria and less
than this amount for the gram-positive ones. The results of this study showed
that, with comparison of the inhibitory effect and germicidal effects of
the essence and extract of mountains’ Kakoty; we can conclude that the essence
of this plant compared to its extract and in its low concentrations is able to
inhibit the growth of under study bacteria.
[Younes Anzabi,
Vahid Badiheh Aghdam, Masoud Hassanzadeh Makoui, Milad Anvarian, Mir Naser
Mousavinia.Evaluation of Antibacterial Properties of
Edible Oils and Extracts of A Native Plant, Ziziphora
Clinopodioides(Mountains’ Kakoty), on Bacteria Isolated From Urinary
Tract Infections. Life Sci J 2013;10(4s):121-127] (ISSN:
1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite.com. 18
Key words: antibacterial effect, Ziziphora clinopodioides,
Kakoty, essence, extract, UTI
