Aloe Vera Antimicrobial Activities

Comparative Aloe Vera Antimicrobial Activities against Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Trichophyton mentagraphytes, T. schoeleinii, Microsporium canis and Candida albicans.

Comparative antimicrobial activities of aloe vera gel and leaf
Agarry O.O., Olaleye M.T. and Bello-Michael, C.O.

Department of Microbiology,
Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria

Department of Biochemistry
Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria

Accepted 14 October, 2005
African Journal of Biotechnology Vol. 4 (12), pp. 1413-1414, December 2005
ISSN 1684–5315 © 2005 Academic Journals

Aloe Vera Antimicrobial Activities

The comparative antimicrobial activities of the gel and leaf of Aloe vera were tested against Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Trichophyton mentagraphytes, T. schoeleinii, Microsporium canis and Candida albicans. Ethanol was used for the extraction of the leaf after obtaining the gel from it.

Antimicrobial effect was measured by the appearance of zones of inhibition. Antimicrobial susceptibility test showed that both the gel and the leaf inhibited the growth of S. aureus (18.0 and 4.0 mm, respectively).

Only the gel inhibited the growth of T. mentagrophytes (20.0 mm), while the leaf possesses inhibitory effects on both P. aeruginosa and C. albicans. The results of this study ...

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