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Antimicrobial Activity of the Genus Galium L.

Ilyina Tatyana Vasilevna1★, Goryachaya Olga Volodymyrivna1, Toryanik Erica Leonidivna2, Kulish Irina Aleksandrovna2, Kovaleva Alla Mihaylovna1★ Corresponding author

  1. 1Departament of Pharmacognosy, 4 Bluchera st., The National University of Pharmacy, Kharkiv, Ukraine, EUROPE.
  2. 2Department of Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics, 12 Melnikova st., The National University of Pharmacy, Kharkiv, Ukraine, EUROPE.

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Ilyina Tatyana Vasilevna

Departament of Pharmacognosy, 4 Bluchera st., The National University of Pharmacy, Kharkiv, Ukraine, EUROPE.

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Volume 6, Issue 1 · pp. 42–47 · PUBLISHED · DOI: 10.5530/pc.2016.1.8

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Introduction: The common use of Galium L. plants (family Rubiaceae Juss.) in Ukrainian folk medicine for treating infectious diseases became the basis for the study of antimicrobial activity of lipophilic complexes ob- tained from the Galium species. Materials and Methods: The samples of herbs of Galium verum, Galium salicifolium, Galium dasypodum, Galium aparine, Galium carpaticum and Galium pseudomollugo harvested at flow- ering stage became the objects of the present research. Lipophilic com- plexes have been obtained by the exhaustive extraction of herbal drugs with chloroform in the Soxhlet apparatus. The complexes have been used as 2% alcohol solutions in 96% ethyl alcohol. The study was conducted in vitro by the agar diffusion method. Standard strains of micro-organisms were used to assess the antimicrobial activity. Results:Staphylococcus aureus was most sensitive to the studied lipophilic complexes. Escherichia coli and Proteus vulgaris showed low sensitivity. Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Bacillus subtilis have shown moderate sensitivity. The highest activity against Candida albicans has been observed in complexes of Galium apa- rine, Galium dasypodum, Galium pseudomollugo. Conversly, Galium verum manifested no activity against Candida albicans. The minimum bactericidal and inhibitory concentrations were determined. The correlation between the content of individual groups of biologically active substances and the level of activity of the complexes was established. All complexes were non-toxic. Conclusion:The results obtained provided us the basis for fur- ther in-depth studies of antimicrobial and antifungal activity of the lipophilic complexes of the genus Galium L.

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    Vasilevna, I. T., Volodymyrivna, G. O., Leonidivna, T. E., Aleksandrovna, K. I., & Mihaylovna, K. A. (). Antimicrobial Activity of the Genus Galium L.. Pharmacognosy Communications, 6(1), 42–47. https://doi.org/10.5530/pc.2016.1.8