Antimicrobial activities of calotropis procera on selected pathogenic microorganisms

Abstract

The antimicrobial effect of ethanol, aqueous and chloroform extracts of leaf and latex of Calotropis procera on six bacteria namely, Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus albus, Streptococcus pyogenes,Streptococcus pneumoniae and three fungi: Aspergillus niger, Aspergillusflavus, Microsporium boulardii and one yeast Candida albicans weredetermined using agar well diffusion and paper disk methods. The resultsrevealed that ethanol was the best extractive solvent for antimicrobialproperties of leaf and latex of C. procera followed in order by Chloroformand aqueous (P