Clinical Microbiology: Open Access

Dushyant Sharma

Publications

• Research Article
  Antibacterial Activity of Twenty Different Endophytic Fungi Isolated from Calotropis procera and Time Kill Assay
  Author(s): Reena Rani, Dushyant Sharma, Monika Chaturvedi and Jaya Parkash Yadav Reena Rani, Dushyant Sharma, Monika Chaturvedi and Jaya Parkash Yadav
  
  Background: Development of drug resistance in bacteria is a common and alarming problem worldwide and there is continuous and urgent need of antibacterial agents. Endophytes offer a plethora of secondary metabolites with various biological activities. These secondary metabolites may help the host plant in defense from pathogens and insects, growth stimulators also helps the host plant in stress tolerance. Calotropis procera is a well-known medicinal plant, used to cure various health ailments traditionally. So, the endophytic fungi isolated from different tissues (leaf, stem and root) of C. procera were evaluated for their antibacterial potential. Methods: The antibacterial activity of crude ethyl acetate extracts of 20 different endophytic fungi was evaluated by using agar well diffusion assay against total nine bacterial reference strains... View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2327-5073.1000280

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