ANTIMICROBIAL EFFECTS OF SOME ESSENTIAL OILS AGAINST UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI STRAINS

IONUT-ALEXANDRU CHELARU, IOANA-MADALINA SION, DUMITRA RĂDUCANU(*)

„Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Biology, Ecology and Environment Protection, 157 Calea Marasesti Street, 600115 Bacau, Romania; e-mail: chelaru.alexandru@yahoo.com; sionioanamdalina@yahoo.com; dora.raducanu@ub.ro.
* Corresponding author’s

Abstract

Now, there is a big interest on the discovering and developing a new antimicrobial product with efficient actions on pathogen bacteries. Also, a lot of attention has been focused on the antimicrobial activity screening and methodology of this. A lot of study aims antibacterial activity of the plants like phytotherapeutic alternatives of the antibiotics resistance (Giamarellou H., 2005, Foxman B., 2010, Schmiedel J. et al., 2014, Zangane Matin F., et al. 2021). In this paper, evaluated a number of 408 urocultures and antibiograms and tested some essentials oils from : Mentha piperita, Origanum vulgare and Thymus vulgaris. The results showed that all theessentials oils tested has a good antibacterial activity in urinary infections, compared with antibiotics.

Keywords

essential oils Mentha piperata Oreganum vulgare Thymus vulgaris E. coli