African Medicinal Plants

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Osmitopsis asteriscoides   (Asteraceae)-the antimicrobial activity and essential oil composition of a Cape-Dutch remedy Abstract The essential oil composition and antimicrobial activity of  Osmitopsis asteriscoides , a medicinal plant used in traditional herbal preparations in South Africa has been investigated. Three different antimicrobial methods (disc diffusion, minimum inhibitory concentration by micro-titer plate and time-kill studies) were comparatively evaluated against  Candida albicans ,  Staphylococcus aureus  and  Pseudomonas aeruginosa . A preliminary screening was done using the disc diffusion method on nine bacterial and four fungal isolates. Minimum inhibitory concentrations showed some correlation with the disc diffusion method. However, time-kill studies appear to be a more superior method for determining antimicrobial activity of volatile compounds such as essential oils. Two moderately susceptible and one resistant organism were se...