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        <journal-meta>
            <journal-id journal-id-type="issn">0973-7510</journal-id>
            <journal-title-group>
                <journal-title>Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology</journal-title>
            </journal-title-group>
            <issn pub-type="epub">2581-690X</issn>
            <publisher>
                <publisher-name>DR. M.N. Khan</publisher-name>
            </publisher>
        </journal-meta>
        <article-meta>
            <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22207/JPAM.12.3.02</article-id>
            <title-group>
                <article-title>Antibacterial and Sporicidal Activities of Methanolic Sygygium polyanthum L. Leaf Extract against Vegetative Cells and Spores of Bacillus pumilus and Bacillus megaterium</article-title>
            </title-group>
            <contrib-group>
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Abdelgani</surname>
                        <given-names>A.M</given-names>
                    </name>
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                </contrib>
				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Rukayadi</surname>
                        <given-names>Y</given-names>
                    </name>
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                </contrib>

				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Shaari</surname>
                        <given-names>K</given-names>
                    </name>
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				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Safinar</surname>
                        <given-names>I</given-names>
                    </name>
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            </contrib-group>
			
			
            <aff id="aff-1">Laboratory of Natural Products, Institute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.</aff>
			<aff id="aff-2">Faculty of food science and Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.</aff>
			<aff id="aff-3">Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.</aff>
	 
			
			
            <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2018-09-30">
                <day>30</day>
                <month>09</month>
                <year>2018</year>
            </pub-date>
            <volume>12</volume>
            <issue>3</issue>
            <fpage>1047</fpage>
            <lpage>1053</lpage>
            <permissions>
                <copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 2018 The Author(s)</copyright-statement>
                <copyright-year>2018</copyright-year>
                <license license-type="open-access"
                    xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
                    <license-p>This is an open access article 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.<uri 
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            <self-uri xlink:href="https://www.microbiologyjournal.org/antibacterial-and-sporicidal-activities-of-methanolic-sygygium-polyanthum-l-leaf-extract-against-vegetative-cells-and-spores-of-bacillus-pumilus-and-bacillus-megaterium/"/>
            <abstract>
                <p>The Sygygium polyantum L. leaf has been used as spice as well as traditional herbal
medicine. The methanolic extracts of S. polyanthum L. was tested for antibacterial and sporicidal
activities against vegetative cells and spores of Bacillus pumilus ATCC14884 and B. megaterium
ATCC14581. The disc diffusion assay (DDA), minimum inhibition concentration (MIC), minimal
bacterial concentration (MBC) and sporicidal activities of the extract on Bacillus sp. were
analyzed using Clinical and Laboratory Standard Institutes (CLSI) methods. The effect of the
extract on spores was visualized using scanning electron microscope (SEM). The results show
that the inhibition zone of the extract on B. pumilus and B. megaterium was 12.16 ± 0.57 mm.
The extract has been able to inhibit the growth of B. pumilus and B. megaterium vegetative cells
with MICs of 0.08- and 0.04 mg/ml, respectively. Moreover, the B. pumilus and B. megaterium
can be killed by MBCs of 1.25- and 0.64 mg/ml, respectively. One presence of extract can kill
100% of all Bacillus sp. spores during 1 h exposure time. SEM observation showed that the
spores were destroyed by the extract. These results suggested that S. polyanthum L. extract can
be developed as antibacterial and antispore against Bacillus sp.
		</p>
		</abstract>
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        <title>Keywords</title>
        <kwd>Antibacterial activity</kwd>
        <kwd>Bacillus pumilus</kwd>
			<kwd>B. megaterium</kwd>
			<kwd>Sporicidal activity</kwd>
			<kwd>Sygygium polyanthum L. extract</kwd>
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