Debasish Nayak, Tharani Jayakumar, Geetha Mani, and Sangeetha Dhayalan✉
Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar 608-002, India
Received: Dec 30, 2022/ Revised: Jan 16, 2023/ Accepted: Jan 19, 2023/Published: Jan 28, 2023
(✉) Corresponding Author: sangeethadau@gmail.com
Abstract
Medicinal plants play a significant role in human health. One such traditional plant is Mimosa pudica L. which acts as an antimicrobial agent. The antibacterial activity against bacteria by agar well diffusion method of Ethanolic extracts. The microorganisms used in the study were Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Bacillus cereus, and Candida albicans. Different concentrations of plant extract were used (50, 100 and150 µg/well). Also, Mimosa pudica L. leaves extracts were assessed for preliminary phytochemical analysis. The phytochemical screening of Mimosa pudica L ethanolic leaves extracts revealed the presence of flavonoids, saponins, glycosides, alkaloids, terpenoids, and coumarins. Compared to other Microorganisms Escherichia coli showed a maximum zone of inhibition in the ethanolic leaves extracts of Mimosa pudica at higher concentrations. Amongst the two extracts, the results clearly indicate that the Mimosa pudica L leaves extract of ethanol exhibited the highest zone of inhibition of 24.2±0.34mm against the bacteria Escherichia coli. Therefore the present study concludes that the phytochemical might have contributed to the antimicrobial activity and further studies can be made on the plant-derived antimicrobials
Keywords: Antibacterial, Phytochemical, Lippia Abysinica, Mimosa pudica L. and UTI Pathogen
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Nayak, D., Jayakumar, T., Mani, G. and Dhayalan, S. (2023). Screening for phytochemical and antibacterial activity of leaves of Mimossa Pudica L. and Lippia Abysinica against urinary tract infection causing pathogens. Science Archives, Vol. 4(1), 1-6 https://doi.org/10.47587/SA.2023.4101
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