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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
ISSN: 1678-8060
EISSN: 1678-8060
Vol. 99, No. 7, 2004, pp. 753-755
Bioline Code: oc04152
Full paper language: English
Document type: Research Article
Document available free of charge

Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Vol. 99, No. 7, 2004, pp. 753-755

 en Antimicrobial Activity and Chemical Investigation of Brazilian Drosera
Dalva Trevisan Ferreira; César Cornélio Andrei; Halha Ostrensky Saridakis; Terezinha de Jesus Faria; Elisângela Vinhato; Kátia Eliane Carvalho; Juliana Feijó Souza Daniel; Sílvio Luiz Machado; Dennis Panayotis Saridakis & Raimundo Braz-Filho

Abstract

The antimicrobial activity of three different extracts (hexanic, ethyl acetate, methanol) obtained from Brazilian Drosera species (D. communis, D. montana var. montana, D. brevifolia, D. villosa var. graomogolensis, D. villosa var. villosa, Drosera sp. 1, and ≥Drosera sp. 2 ) were tested against Staphylococcus aureus (ATCC 25923), Enterococcus faecium (ATCC23212), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (ATCC27853), Escherichia coli (ATCC11229), Salmonella choleraesuis (ATCC10708), Klebsiella pneumoniae (ATCC13883), and Candida albicans (a human isolate). Better antimicrobial activity was observed with D. communis and D. montana var. montana ethyl acetate extracts. Phytochemical analyses from D. communis, D. montana var. montana and D. brevifolia yielded 5-hydroxy-2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone (plumbagin); long chain aliphatic hydrocarbons were isolated from D. communis and from D. villosa var. villosa, a mixture of long chain aliphatic alcohols and carboxylic acids, was isolated from D. communis and 3β-O-acetylaleuritolic acid from D. villosa var. villosa.

Keywords
Drosera species - Droseraceae - antimicrobial activity - plumbagin - aliphatic compounds

 
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