BACKGROUND
Microbes have been implicated in a wide variety of human diseases many of which are of life-threatening nature. New antimicrobials are urgently needed not only for combating these organisms but also to counter the menace of the harmful microbes developing resistance against drugs at
The ocean covers more than 70% of earth surface and hosts most 300,000 described species of plants and animals to use, which have been virtually unexploited for the development of medicines. Marine plants are the good source of biologically active entities which exhibit therapeutic properties, when
The antimicrobial activity of the ethanolic extract of Adesmia aegiceras was studied by the agar-well diffusion method. Antibacterial activity against Micrococcus luteus and eight pathogenic bacterial strains as well as antifungal activity against Candida albicans, was detected. Bacterial and fungal
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