ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY OF ZIZIPHUS MAURITIANA AGAINST CANDIDA ALBICANS AND ASPERGILLUS NIGER
Marathe Rachana S.*, More Sneha P., Padavi Dipikaben A., Dr. Sunila T. Patil, H. S. Hasni and Dr. S. P. Pawar
ABSTRACT
Ziziphus mauritiana Lam. is a medium sized tree (Rhamnaceae) grows in almost all parts of the country. It is a
potent medicinal plant with many biologically active components such as phenolics, flavonoids, triterpenic acids,
polysaccharides and saponins. It majorly possesses anti cancer, anti oxidant, wound healing, antifertility, anti
inflammatory, antiulcer, antidiahhoreal and antifungal activities. In the present study, anti fungal activity of
Ziziphus mauritiana was tested with methanol extracts against various pathogenic fungi such as Candida albicans.
The invitro anti fungal activity was performed by agar well diffusion method. Of the leaf extracts, methanol extract
from Z. mauritiana leaves exhibited significant antifungal activity. In anti fungal studies, methanol leaf extract
showed promising results against Candida albicans.
Keywords: Ziziphus mauritiana, Methanol extract, antifungal activity, Candida albicans, Aspergillus niger.
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