As a part of our drug discovery program, an effort to introduce new effective medicinal plants, with antibacterial, antifungal and cytotoxic properties was made. The extracts of aerial part of 8 plants, collected in southeastern Iran, were investigated against standard strains of Bacillus subtilis, Enterococcus faecalis,Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Salmonella entrica subsp. entrica ser. Typhi, Escherichia coli, meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (isolated from patients), Fusarium oxyosporum,Aspergilus niger, and Aspergilus fumigatus. We used brine shrimp (Artemia salind) cytotoxicity bioassay in order to provide a better base for introducing the extracts as the new therapeutic candidates.
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