Investigation of some traditional sudanese medicinal trees with putative antibacterial activity

الملخص EN

The flavonoids and the crude alcoholic extractives of the Sudanese materials of Acacia nilotica var nilotica, Acacia nilotica var astringens and Hyphaene thebaica were tested for their antibacterial activity against five organisms : Bacillus subtitis, Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Proteus vulgaris.

The pure flavonoids exhibited more potency than the crude extractives against some of the organisms.

The crude extract of Hyphaene thebaica showed less potency against: Bacillus subtitis, Proteus vulgaris and Escherichia coli