Screening of Zingiberaceae extracts for antimicrobial and antioxidant activities

• Main Authors: Mohamad, Habsah, Amran, Mugahed, Mohamed Mackeen, Muhammad Mukram, Lajis, Nordin, Kikuzaki, Hiroe, Nakatani, Nobuji, A. Rahman, A., Ghafar,, Ali, Abdul Manaf
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2000
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/40312/1/Screening%20of%20Zingiberaceae%20extracts%20for%20antimicrobial%20and%20antioxidant%20activities.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/40312/; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378874100002233

Dichloromethane and methanol extracts of 13 Zingiberaceae species from the Alpinia, Costus and Zingiber genera were screened for antimicrobial and antioxidant activities. The antimicrobial activity of most of the extracts was antibacterial with only the methanol extract of Costus discolor showing ve...