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Study of Antimicrobial Activity of Thyme and Oregano Extracted by Glycerin Using Maceration

Ali Ali*, Wissam Zam and Farah Husein

Corresponding Author: Ali Ali, Department of Food Technology, Faculty of Technical Engineering, Tartous University, Tartous, Syria.

Received: November 04, 2021 ;    Revised: January 15, 2022 ;    Accepted: January 18, 2022

Citation: Ali A, Zam W & Husein F. (2022) Study of Antimicrobial Activity of Thyme and Oregano Extracted by Glycerin Using Maceration. Int J Med Microbiol Immunol, 1(1): 1-5.

Copyrights: ©2022 Ali A, Zam W & Husein F. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Abstract

Background: This study aims to explain the efficiency of the antimicrobial activity of Thyme (T) and Oregano (O) and mixtures of different proportions of their extracts with Glycerin.

Methods: The experiments were conducted using five extracts consisting of (T100O00), (T75/O25), (T50/O50, (T25/O75), (T00O100). The mixtures were extracted by glycerin 90% and macerated for 10 days. The extracts were applied using 8 pathogenic bacterial strains (Klebsiella pneumonia, Enterobacter cloacae, Acinetobacter boumannii, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa Proteus mirabilis, Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes).

Results: The results showed that the best efficacy was for mixture (T100O00) followed by mixture (T75/O25), also all extracts showed the highest antibacterial activity against Streptococcus pyogenes followed by Staphylococcus aureus.

Conclusions: This study demonstrated the high antimicrobial activity of Thyme, and confirmed the good efficacy of glycerin as a green solvent in addition to clarifying the importance of maceration for extracting the active compounds from essential oils.

Keywords: Thyme, Oregano, Glycerin, Maceration, Antimicrobial activity

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