Background: It was previously shown that some parts of
Aquilaria agallocha
, which is commonly known as oud or oodh, such as
roots have been used as a traditional medical herbal in different countries. In Turkey
A. agallocha is one of the ingredients while
preparing famous Mesir paste, which was invented as a medicinal paste and used from the Ottoman period to now at least for 500
years. The identification the
in vitro antimicrobial activity of ethanol extract of
A. agallocha roots is main purpose of this analysis.
Materials and Methods: By using 17 bacteria and 1 fungi, which include Bacillus, Candida, Enterobacter, Enterococcus,
Escherichia, Klebsiella, Listeria, Pseudomonas, Salmonella and Staphylococcus genera, the activity of
A. agallocha root extracts
were analysed by the help of the disk diffusion method, that is one of the methods commonly used to determine antimicrobial
activities.
Results: As a result of the study it was observed that ethanol extracts of
A. agallocha roots have a clear antimicrobial activity
against nearly all microorganism used in the study, but only two bacteria namely
E. coli
ATCC 25922 and
S. typhimurium
SL 1344.
Conclusion: According to the disk diffusion test results it may be possible to propose that
A. agallocha roots should have a
medicinal uses especially against
E. faecium
,
L. monocytogenes
ATCC 7644,
B. subtilis
DSMZ 1971,
C. albicans
DSMZ 1386,
S. epidermidis
DSMZ 20044 and
S. aureus
ATCC 25923.
