Antibacterial effects of Citrus limon peel extract on human pathogenic bacteria with special reference to Urinary Tract Infection

Neha Sharma¹ , D.S. Rathore²

1. Department of Biotechnology, Govt. Kamla Raja Girls P.G. (Autonomous) College, Gwalior, India.
2. Department of Biotechnology, Govt. Kamla Raja Girls P.G. (Autonomous) College, Gwalior, India.

Correspondence should be addressed to: drneha16may@gmail.com.

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Isroset-Journal
Vol.5 , Issue.2 , pp.14-17, Apr-2018

CrossRef-DOI:   https://doi.org/10.26438/ijsrbs/v5i2.1417

Online published on Apr 30, 2018

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Abstract :
Urinary tract infections (UTI) are the most common pathogenic infections, specially found in working ladies as well as seen in men and lead to many difficult problems. As the microorganism are resistant day by day from antibiotics. The main objective of this study is evaluated the antimicrobial activity and future prophylactic potential of the Citrus limon peel against strains of human pathogenic bacteria. Phytochemical analysis of citrus fruits shows that they are rich source of flavanones and many polymethoxylated flavones, which are found very rare in other plants, have very strong antibacterial activity. Antimicrobial analysis was done by using agar well diffusion method. The result was found that, the peel extract of lemon were inhibited the growth of Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus as well as Bacillus substilis which show the resistance against nalidixic acid, co-trimoxazole and nitrofuranation antibiotics. On the basis of the present finding lemon peel extract might be a good candidate in the search for a natural antimicrobial agent and can be considered to be as equally potent as the antibiotics, such as, ciprofloxacin.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Citrus limon, Human pathogens, UTI, antimicrobial agent

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