3.2. Antimicrobial screening
The crude ethanolic extract of different endophytic fungi along with the plant extract was evaluated for the antimicrobial efficacy against two clinically significant animal pathogens. Among the eight isolates, only three isolates showed potent antimicrobial activity. Crude ethanolic plant extract also showed the antimicrobial activity. The fungal isolate EF15 showed the highest antimicrobial activity against both the tested animal pathogen followed by plant extract and the fungal isolates EF13 and EF14 (Table 1). The control well with DMSO did not show any zone of inhibition.