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Antibacterial Activity of Ethanolic extract of Cinnamon against clinical Isolates of Staphylococcus aureus


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1 Department of Microbiology, Saveetha Dental College and Hospital, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
2 Department of Orthodontics, Saveetha Dental College and Hospitals, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
     

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Staphylococci can cause many forms of infection like superficial skin lesions, osteomyelitis and endocarditis and more serious skin infections ,nosocomial infection of surgical wounds.They are Gram-positive cocci 1μm in diameter.The aim of our study was to determine the antibacterial activity of cinnamon bark oil against Grampositive isolates belonging to Staphylococcus

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Staphylococcus Aureus, Cinnamon, Ethanol, Resistance.
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Authors

R. Sangavi
Department of Microbiology, Saveetha Dental College and Hospital, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
P. Gopinath
Department of Microbiology, Saveetha Dental College and Hospital, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
Aravind Kumar
Department of Orthodontics, Saveetha Dental College and Hospitals, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract


Staphylococci can cause many forms of infection like superficial skin lesions, osteomyelitis and endocarditis and more serious skin infections ,nosocomial infection of surgical wounds.They are Gram-positive cocci 1μm in diameter.The aim of our study was to determine the antibacterial activity of cinnamon bark oil against Grampositive isolates belonging to Staphylococcus

Keywords


Staphylococcus Aureus, Cinnamon, Ethanol, Resistance.

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