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Mu’ad Al-zuabe, Yazan Ismail ,Diya Hasan, Hussein Alhrout, Safaa Al-Zeidaneen, Yanal Albawarshi and Eman Abu-Hamra

Department of Allied Medical Sciences, Zarqa University College, Al-Balqa Applied University, Al-Salt, Jordan
J Pure Appl Microbiol, 2019, 13 (1): 107-116 | Article Number: 5330

http://dx.doi.org/10.22207/JPAM.13.1.11 | © The Author(s). 2019 

Received: 12/10/2018| Accepted: 01/12/2018 |Published: 06/02/2019
Abstract

The antimicrobial resistant microorganisms will take us again to an era where a simple infection could lead to serious illness and death, interest in using medicinal plants as a source of new antimicrobials has increased. Cyclamen persicum is a traditional medicinal plant that showed to have some medicinal effects. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the antimicrobial effect of C. persicum tuber water, acetone, ethanol and methanol extracts on different pathogenic bacteria and candida. It was found that C. persicum tuber acetone, ethanol and methanol extracts have antibacterial effect on many Gram positive and Gram negative bacteria specially S. pyogenes, S. aureus, E. faecalis, P. mirabilis, K. pneumoniae, E. cloacae, P. aeruginosa and S. flexneri. C. persicum tuber acetone, ethanol and methanol extracts also showed great antifungal effect against all Candida used in this study. The study also reported extracting saponin from C. persicum tubers methanol extract.

Keywords

Cyclamen persicum tubers, Antimicrobial effect, Saponin.

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