Background: Fungi have a potential of using both as nutritive and medicinal food stuff. Because of containing several therapeutic
agents, they are reported to be used for hundreds of years to treat several diseases caused by bacteria, fungi, viruses and parasites. The
aim of this study is to determine the
in vitro antimicrobial activity of
Xylaria hypoxylon
, which were collected from Yomra, Trabzon,
Turkey.
Materials and Methods: X. hypoxylon samples were air dried and extracted by using ethanol. Antimicrobial activity of
X. hypoxylon
ethanol extracts were investigated against 21 bacterial and 2 fungal strains, namely,
Bacillus subtilis
DSMZ 1971,
Bacillus subtilis
ATCC 6633,
Candida albicans
ATCC 10231,
Candida albicans DSMZ 1386,
Enterobacter aerogenes
ATCC 13048,
Enterococcus durans
,
Enterococcus faecalis
ATCC 29212,
Enterococcus faecium
,
Escherichia coli
ATCC 25922,
Escherichia coli CFAI,
Klebsiella pneumoniae
,
Listeria innocula
,
Listeria monocytogenes
ATCC 7644,
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
DSMZ 50071,
Pseudomonas fluorescence
P1,
Salmonella enteritidis
ATCC 13075,
Salmonella infantis,
Salmonella kentucky,
Salmonella typhimurium
SL 1344,
Staphylococcus aureus
ATCC 25923,
Staphylococcus carnosus
MC1.B,
Staphylococcus epidermidis
DSMZ 20044 and
Streptococcus agalactiae
DSMZ 6784 by using the disk diffusion method.
Results: It is observed that ethanol extracts of
X. hypoxylon has antimicrobial activity against several Gram positive and Gram
negative microorganisms tested. As a result of the study, an antimicrobial activity of
X. hypoxylon found against most of strains used
in the study.
Conclusion: The results of our study clearly puts forward that
X. hypoxylon could have a possible medicinal use.
