ISSN: 0973-7510

E-ISSN: 2581-690X

Ayana Ravi and Oommen P. Saj
Department of Botany and Research Centre, University College, Thiruvananthapuram – 695 034, India.
J Pure Appl Microbiol. 2009;3(1):239-242
© The Author(s). 2009
Received: 19/08/2008 | Accepted: 20/10/2008 | Published: 30/04/2009
Abstract

The phytochemicals of leaf, bark and fruit pericarp of Terminalia bellerica Roxb. was extracted and tested against 5 strains of bacteria and fungi. All the three extracts showed comparable activity with the standards and more pronounced activity was against the bacterial strains. Fruit pericarp extract showed high sensitivity against all the fungal and bacterial strains.

Keywords

Terminalia bellerica extract, Antibacterial & Antifungal sensitivity

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