Anti-microbial and Anti-oxidant Agents in Mushroom Fruit Bodies | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Soil Science | ||
| Article 3, Volume 54, Issue 3, September 2014, Pages 229-230 PDF (244.99 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejss.2014.121 | ||
| Abstract | ||
| OTENTIAL drugs from mushrooms are useful for mankind. The …. scientific basis for their traditional medicinal uses, the antimicrobial activities of the crude polysaccharide extract from the mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus were investigated. In this study, ethanol and methanol were tested for extraction of mushroom fruit bodies. Ethanolic and methanolic extracts of fungal fruit bodies showed somewhat low antagonism towards Staphylococcus aureus and Salmonella typhi. No anti-biosis due to either ethanolic or methanolic extracts was detected against Enterobacter faecalis or Lactobacillus bulgaricus. The fungal members Aspergillus flavus and Candida albicans, as well, did successfully withstand the existence of three extracts with no apparent inhibition. Total phenols and ascorbic acid contents as antioxidant components in the mushrooms fruit bodies were also detected. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| mushroom; Anti-biosis; anti-oxidants | ||
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