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| Year : 2009 | Volume
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Antibacterial Activity of Leptadenia reticulata (Retz.) Wight. & Arn. (Asclepidaceae)
C Kalidass1, M Glory2, Francis Borgio3, VS Manickam1
1 Centre for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, St.Xavier's College (Autonomous), Tirunelveli, India
2 Department of Plant Biology and Plant Biotechnology, St. Mary's College, Thoothukudi. Tamil Nadu, India
3 Genecity Laboratory, Pune, India
Correspondence Address:
C Kalidass
Centre for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, St.Xavier's College (Autonomous), Tirunelveli
India
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PMID: 22557325 
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leptadenia reticulata of Asclepidaceae family is a shrub, originally property of Petroleum ether, Alcohol & Chloroform extract of L. reticulata . The antimicrobial testing was carried out by "Disc diffusion method". Amongst the tested three extracts, chloroform extract showed high antimicrobial activity against E. coli , alcoholic extract showed high antibacterial activity against Pseudomonas aeruginosa, while Petroleum ether extract showed antibacterial activity against Klebsilla pneumonae |
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