A comparative study of antimicrobial activity of certain essential oils versus commercial antibiotics
International Journal of Development Research
A comparative study of antimicrobial activity of certain essential oils versus commercial antibiotics
Received 19th September, 2019; Received in revised form 17th October, 2019; Accepted 29th November, 2019; Published online 31th December, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Monal Singh and Neerja Gupta. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Drugs resistant microbes is a serious problem. As safe alternatives herbal medicines are discovered certain essential oils (non antibiotic substance) have shown fighting potential against drug resistant pathogens Antimicrobial activity of four different essential oils i.e. Tea tree, eucalyptus, menthol and camphor have been evaluated and were found susceptible to both gram positive i.e. Staphylococcus aureus and gram negative bacteria i.e. Escherichia coli. The antimicrobial susceptibility in each essential oils and commercial antibiotics i.e. Ampicillin and ciprofloxacin were set to determine growth inhibition zone diameters by agar disc diffusion method.
