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Gowri Rajkumar, P. A. H. R. Panambara, Vinotha Sanmugarajah<\/p>\n

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In the treatment of diabetes mellitus, the traditional medical system of Sri Lanka has demonstrated to be far more effective, with less side effects and lower costs than modern synthetic medications. Ethnobotanical research is also necessary to learn about the world’s traditional usage for treating chronic illness. Therefore, the present evaluation was aimed to compare the antimicrobial activity between the ethanolic leaves extracts of\u00a0Murraya koenigii, Tinospora cordifolia, Enicostemma\u00a0<\/em>littorale\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Gymnema sylvestre\u00a0<\/em>which are commonly found in Jaffna District against three different bacterial species such as\u00a0Staphylococcus\u00a0<\/em>sp.,\u00a0Enterococcus\u00a0<\/em>sp. and\u00a0Escherichia coli\u00a0<\/em>sp. by determining zone of inhibition using agar well diffusion method and compared with standard antibiotics. All experiments were conducted in triplicate. The statistical analysis was carried out using one-way Analysis of variance and values were expressed as the mean \u00b1 standard deviation. Results showed all the tested leaf extracts showed promising antibacterial activity against all the bacterial strains which was comparable with positive control Streptomycin.\u00a0E.littorale<\/em>\u00a0showed the highest zone of inhibition diameter against\u00a0Enterococcus\u00a0<\/em>sp. (14.08\u00b12.46 mm).\u00a0M.koenigii\u00a0<\/em>showed the highest zone of inhibition diameter against\u00a0Staphylococcus\u00a0<\/em>sp. (8.96\u00b12.49 mm) and\u00a0E.coli<\/em>\u00a0(9.67\u00b10.996 mm). Present study determined that the ethanol leaf extracts of\u00a0Murraya<\/em>\u00a0sp. and\u00a0Enicostemma<\/em>\u00a0sp. showed the highest antibacterial activity than other two species against all tested bacteria. Therefore,\u00a0E.<\/em>littorale\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Enicostemma<\/em>\u00a0sp. can be used for developing therapeutic agents for the treatment of infectious diseases caused by microbes in future.<\/div>\n
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Authors Gowri Rajkumar, P. A. H. R. Panambara, Vinotha Sanmugarajah Abstract In the treatment of diabetes mellitus, the traditional medical system of Sri Lanka has demonstrated to be far more effective, with less side effects and lower costs than modern synthetic medications. Ethnobotanical research is also necessary to learn about the world’s traditional usage for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[306],"tags":[384,234,290,385,386,382,383],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-17-1","tag-agar-well-diffusion","tag-antibacterial-activity","tag-gowri-rajkumar","tag-inhibition-zone","tag-medicinal-plant-leaves","tag-p-a-h-r-panambara","tag-vinotha-sanmugarajah"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vingnanam.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vingnanam.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vingnanam.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vingnanam.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vingnanam.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vingnanam.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601,"href":"https:\/\/vingnanam.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions\/601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vingnanam.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vingnanam.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vingnanam.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}