Abstract: Medicinal plants have considered as an alternative resource to antibiotics in the pathogenic bacterial treatment. In traditional medicine system, plant and their parts widely used as medicine among them Ginger (Zingiber officinale) plants used majorly. The present research work focused on antimicrobial activity of the hexane and methanol extract of ginger has tested against five pathogenic bacteria like Escherichia coli, Proteus vulgaris, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa by Kirby-Bayer agar diffusion method. In this analysis methanol ginger extract showed maximum zone of inhibition against Escherichia coli (23.65±0.52) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (21.32±0.72) and minimum zone inhibition observed in Proteus vulgaris (15.63±0.63). The hexane ginger extract showed that maximum zone of inhibition against Escherichia coli (19.23±0.32) and minimum zone of inhibition against Proteus vulgaris (12.53±0.56). Present study, results confirmed that methanolic extract of ginger showed potential antibacterial activity against pathogenic bacteria over hexane extract, therefore methanolic extract perhaps used against these pathogenic bacterial treatments after proper validation.
Keywords: Ginger (Zingiber officinale), Methanol extract, Hexane extract, Zone of inhibition (ZOI), and Kirby-Bayer agar diffusion method.
Title: Invitro antibacterial activity of ginger root extracts against some pathogenic bacteria
Author: Pavitra T
International Journal of Life Sciences Research
ISSN 2348-313X (Print), ISSN 2348-3148 (online)
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