ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY OF BENTHIC MARINE ALGAE EXTRACTS FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN COAST OF MOROCCO

Authors

  • Hanaâ Zbakh
  • Houda Chiheb
  • Hassan Bouziane
  • Virginia Motilva Sánchez
  • Hassane Riadi

Keywords:

Antibacterial activity, Macroalgae, Moroccan Mediterranean coast, Algal extract

Abstract

Marine organisms are potentially prolific sources of highly bioactive secondary metabolites that might represent useful leads in the development of new pharmaceutical agents. The Moroccan marine biodiversity including macroalgae remains partially unexplored in term of their potential bioactivities. Antibacterial activity of methanolic extracts from 20 species of macroalgae (9 Chlorophyta, 3 Phaeophyta and 8 Rhodophyta) collected from Moroccan Mediterranean coasts was evaluated against Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus and Enterococcus faecalis. The extracts of the studied Rhodophyceae inhibited considerably the growth of the three tested bacterial strains and gave inhibition zones between 20 and 24 mm. The results indicate that these species of seaweed present a significant capacity of antibacterial activities, which makes them interesting for screening for natural products.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Downloads

Published

2012-08-01

How to Cite

Zbakh, H., Chiheb, H., Bouziane, H., Motilva Sánchez, V., & Riadi, H. (2012). ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY OF BENTHIC MARINE ALGAE EXTRACTS FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN COAST OF MOROCCO. Journal of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Food Sciences, 2(1), 219–228. Retrieved from https://office2.jmbfs.org/index.php/JMBFS/article/view/7199

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 1 (2012): August - September

Section

Microbiology

License

Copyright (c) 2012 Hanaâ Zbakh, Houda Chiheb, Hassan Bouziane, Virginia Motilva Sánchez, Hassane Riadi

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

All papers published in the Journal of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Food Sciences  are published under a CC-BY licence (CC-BY 4.0). Published materials can be shared (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapted (remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially) with specifying the author(s).