In case of surgical operations and retarded immunity, opportunistic fungal and bacterial infections have become common cause for the mobility and mortality. Traditional plants are valuable source of novel antifungal and anti bacterial. The aqueous and ethanol extracts of leaves, whole plant and secondary metabolites of Enicostemma littorale showed better antimicrobial activity against three each test bacterial and three fungal species.
Enicostemma littorale, antimicrobial activity, phytochemicals, aqueous extracts, ethanol extracts
© The Author(s) 2010. Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted use, sharing, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.