Promising Sudanese Medicinal Plants with Antibacterial Activity - a Review Article

Author: Wail E. Abdalla*,** and Emad M. Abdallah*

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Abstract

This study is considered as the most comprehensive review of Sudanese medicinal plants with promising antibacterial activities, since it covered more than 60 published studies on that topic. A total of 142 plant species belonging to 64 families, which showed antibacterial activities when extracted using different solvents (polar and non-polar) and tested against some gram negative or gram positive bacteria in vitro (cup-plate method and disc diffusion method) have been presented. In conclusion, the list of medicinal plants presented in this review clearly indicates that most of them could be promising sources of new antibacterial drugs and encourages researchers for further microbiological and pharmacological studies.

Keywords

medicinal plants, Sudan, antibacterial, traditional medicine.

Conclusion

This study is considered as the most comprehensive review of Sudanese medicinal plants with promising antibacterial activities, since it covered more than 60 published studies on that topic. A total of 142 plant species belonging to 64 families, which showed antibacterial activities when extracted using different solvents (polar and non-polar) and tested against some gram negative or gram positive bacteria in vitro (cup-plate method and disc diffusion method) have been presented. In conclusion, the list of medicinal plants presented in this review clearly indicates that most of them could be promising sources of new antibacterial drugs and encourages researchers for further microbiological and pharmacological studies.

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Wail E. Abdalla, and Emad M. Abdallah (2016). Promising Sudanese Medicinal Plants with Antibacterial Activity - a Review Article , Biological Forum – An International Journal 8(1): 299-323.