Evaluation of antimicrobial activity of medicinal orchid malaxis rheedei sw. against some selected pathogens
The antimicrobial activity of whole plant extracts of Malaxis rheedei Sw was evaluated in vitro, using disc diffusion method. Four different extracts were used which included chloroform, methanol, ethyl acetate and petroleum ether. Five species of bacterial strains namely Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella typhi, Klebsiella pneumoniae and fungus strains Aspergillus flavus, Trichophyton rubrum, Candida albicans, Candida tropicalis, Cryptococcus neoformans were used for the present study.