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Hozoorbakhsh F, Esfahani BN, Moghim S, et al. Evaluation of the effect of Pulicaria gnaphalodes and Perovskia abrotanoides essential oil extracts against Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains. Adv Biomed Res. 2016;5:79doi: 10.4103/2277-9175.180991.
Hozoorbakhsh, F., Esfahani, B. N., Moghim, S., & Asghari, G. (2016). Evaluation of the effect of Pulicaria gnaphalodes and Perovskia abrotanoides essential oil extracts against Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains. Advanced biomedical research, 579. https://doi.org/10.4103/2277-9175.180991
Hozoorbakhsh, Fereshte, et al. "Evaluation of the effect of Pulicaria gnaphalodes and Perovskia abrotanoides essential oil extracts against Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains." Advanced biomedical research vol. 5 (2016): 79. doi: https://doi.org/10.4103/2277-9175.180991
Hozoorbakhsh F, Esfahani BN, Moghim S, Asghari G. Evaluation of the effect of Pulicaria gnaphalodes and Perovskia abrotanoides essential oil extracts against Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains. Adv Biomed Res. 2016 Apr 21;5:79. doi: 10.4103/2277-9175.180991. eCollection 2016. PMID: 27195252; PMCID: PMC4863401.
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Adv Biomed Res. 2016 Apr 21;5:79. doi: 10.4103/2277-9175.180991. eCollection 2016.

Evaluation of the effect of Pulicaria gnaphalodes and Perovskia abrotanoides essential oil extracts against Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains.

Advanced biomedical research

Fereshte Hozoorbakhsh, Bahram Nasr Esfahani, Sharareh Moghim, Gholamreza Asghari

Affiliations

  1. Department of Biology, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
  2. Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
  3. Isfahan Pharmaceutical Science Research Center, School of Pharmacy, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.

PMID: 27195252 PMCID: PMC4863401 DOI: 10.4103/2277-9175.180991

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) is the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), which remains one of the major public health problems in the world. The increasing incidence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) worldwide highlights the urgent need to search for alternative antimycobacterial agents. More and more people in developing countries utilize traditional medicine for their major primary health care needs. It has been determined that the medicinal plants Pulicaria gnaphalodes and Perovskia abrotanoides possess strong antibacterial effect.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this study, the antimycobacterial effects of P. gnaphalodes and P. abrotanoides essential oil on MTB were examined. Essential oil was prepared from P. gnaphalodes aerial parts and P. abrotanoides flower. The effects of six different concentrations (20 μg/ml, 40 μg/ml, 80 μg/ml, 160 μg/ml, 320 μg/ml, and 640 μg/ml) were examined against sensitive isolates of MTB and MTB H37Rv (ATCC 27294).

RESULTS: The results showed that P. gnaphalodes and P. abrotanoides essential oil extracts have strong inhibitory effects on MTB. This activity for P. gnaphalodes was observed from very low (4%) to good (70.9%) effect; meanwhile, this activity for P. abrotanoides was observed from very low (4%) to strong (86%) effect.

CONCLUSION: The mean of inhibition percentage for P. gnaphalodes and P. abrotanoides in 640 μg/ml was 58.1% and 76.2%, respectively. So, P. abrotanoides plant is more effective against MTB than P. gnaphalodes. Identification of the effective fraction against MTB is a further step to be studied.

Keywords: Antimycobacterial effect; Perovskia abrotanoides; Pulicaria gnaphalodes; essential oil

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