Results and Discussion
Crude hexane, crude dichloromethane and crude
methanol extracts were screened for antibacterial and
antifungal activity. TLC results showed that partially
purified hexane extract was more stable than partiallypurified dichloromethane extract. Their antibacterial
activity against gram positive and gram negative bacteria
ATCC strains are shown in Table 1, and antifungal
activity against three pathogenic fungi in Table 2.
MICs of antifungal activity of partially purified hexane
extracts were higher than antibacterial activity (Table 3).
This also suggested that agar dilution method (Table 3)
for MIC determination was more accurate than agar
diffusion method (Table 1, 2).