[{
  "type": "article-journal",
  "title": "SCREENING OF SOME MEDICINAL PLANTS FOR ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY AGAINST CONJUNCTIVITIS",
  "author": [
    {
      "family": "Meher",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "Ali",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "Sami",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "Ismail",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "Naheed",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "Khan",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "Ahmad",
      "given": ""
    }
  ],
  "issued": {
    "date-parts": [[2017]]
  },
  "container-title": "Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences",
  "ISSN": "1018-7081",
  "volume": "27",
  "issue": "6",
  "page": "2069-2074",
  "DOI": "NA",
  "abstract": "<p>Antibiotic resistance is a persistently emerging problem all over the world. The constituents of therapeutic plant extracts play a key role in antimicrobial drug discovery. Extracts of 36 medicinal plant species of Pakistan origin that belong to 33 genera and 24 families were tested against the bacterial strains&nbsp;<em>Staphylococcus aureus</em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</em>. In addition the extracts of 23 plant species classified in 21 genera and 17 families were assessed against the bacterial clinical isolates (<em>S. aureus</em>,&nbsp;<em>P. aeruginosa</em>), using the agar well diffusion method. As a result, 10 plant extracts exhibited different properties against the specific bacterial strains. Some plant extracts were also tested against the clinical&nbsp;<em>P. aeruginosa</em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>S. aureus</em>&nbsp;isolates. Among the tested samples, Haleej, Anaar and Kali Mirch exhibited the highest relative percentage inhibition against&nbsp;<em>S. aureus</em>&nbsp;while Kala Zeera, Abhal and Khobani showed the highest inhibition against&nbsp;<em>P. aeruginosa</em>. In addition Anar exhibited the highest inhibition against the clinical&nbsp;<em>S. aureus</em>&nbsp;isolate while Pista followed by Zeera showed the highest inhibition against the clinical&nbsp;<em>P. aeruginosa</em> isolate. The results obtained in our present study might help explain the ethnobotanical importance of the screened plant species for the treatment of conjunctivitis.</p>",
  "publisher": "Pakistan Agricultural Scientists Forum",
  "URL": "https://thejaps.org.pk/AbstractView.aspx?mid=2017-JAPS-259"
}]