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Volume 33, No. (3), 2023 (June)
ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY OF EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS ESSENTIAL OIL FRACTIONS AGAINST ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM ISOLATED FROM DIARRHEIC SHEEP
T. Ali, A. A. Anjum, S. S. Abdelgayed, A. Sarwar, M. M. K. Sattar, M. Naveed and M. Tariq

T. Ali, A. A. Anjum, S. S. Abdelgayed, A. Sarwar, M. M. K. Sattar, M. Naveed and M. Tariq

1Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Central Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.

2Institute of Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan.

3Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt.

4Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan.

Corresponding Author: aftab.anjum@uvas.edu.pk
Page Number(s): 666-674
Published Online First: February 10, 2023
Publication Date: June 18, 2023
ABSTRACT

Antibiotic resistant Enterococcus faecium isolated from the diarrheic sheep were subjected to antibacterial activity of plant essential oils and their fractions. The fraction with least minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) was subjected to cytotoxicity and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GCMS) analysis. Primarily, biochemically characterized isolates were confirmed by PCR amplification of 16S rRNA gene followed by nucleotide sequencing and accession numbers received were MW332526.1MW332527.1MW332528.1 and MW332529.1. These isolates were screened for antibiotic resistance to a variety of antibiotic classes and recorded as resistant to all the tested antibiotics. Antibacterial activity of plant essential oils (n=05) was checked against three selected antibiotic resistant E. faecium isolates. Activity of Eucalyptus globulus was highest (13.00±1.3 mm) and among the fractions of E. globulus, n-hexane plus chloroform depicted a higher mean zone of inhibition (13.45±1.11mm) with least MIC (25.28±7.41 mg/mL) which differed significantly (P<0.05) with other fractions tested. Cell survival percentage was 58.60 at 112.10 mg/mL concentration. GCMS analysis revealed that the highest percentage (14.4%) was of Bicyclo[2.2.1]heptan-2-ol,1,7,7-trimethyl. It was concluded that E. globulus fraction n-hexane plus chloroform showed significantly (P<0.05) better results as compared to other (n=08) E. globulus solvent fractions for treatment of antibiotic resistant cases of diarrhea in sheep caused by E. faecium.

Keywords: Antibiotic resistance, Enterococcus faecium, Eucalyptus globulus fractions, Cell survival percentage, Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry
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