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Atividade antibacteriana de plantas medicinais frente á bactérias multirresistentes e a sua interação com drogas antimicrobianas
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2012-08-28) SARAIVA, Rosa Márcia Corrêa; VIEIRA, José Maria dos Santos; http://lattes.cnpq.br/6807452375674442
Infection control of the multidrug-resistant microorganisms sometimes is ineffective even with the development of new antibiotics. Many herbal extracts have antimicrobial effects and may represent an alternative therapy for infectious diseases, mainly when associated with antibiotics of clinical use. The aim of this study was to evaluate the antibacterial activity of medicinal plants in multidrug-resistant microorganisms and their interaction with antimicrobial agents. We evaluate the antibacterial activity of plant extracts and fractions of Eleutherine plicata (“marupazinho”) Geissospermum vellosii (“pau-pereira”) and Portulaca pilosa (“amor-crescido”) against isolates of Oxacillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (ORSA) and multi-resistant bacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa, from human clinical isolates. Also we evaluate interaction of these plant extracts with antimicrobial agents of clinical use. The antibacterial activity was determined by disk diffusion on Mueller Hinton agar and the Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) by micro dilution plate technique using Muller Hinton broth as culture medium and 0.01% resazurin as a developer of bacterial growth. The extracts and fractions were tested at concentrations of 500, 250, 125, 62.5, 31.2 and 16.2 μg/mL dissolved in 10% DMSO. Plants E. plicata and G. vellosii demonstrated activity against ORSA isolates with MICs of 125 μg/mL, whereas P. pilosa had an effect on the isolates of P. aeruginosa with MIC of 250 μg/mL. There were 25% of synergism and only 5% of antagonism of all 120 plant and antimicrobial agents interaction tested. ORSA isolates had synergistic interaction with ciprofloxacin, clindamycin and vancomycin agents and with both plant derivatives of E. plicata and G. vellosii. The derivatives of P. pilosa potentiated the action of the aztreonam, cefepime and piperacillin + tazobactam agents compared to the isolates of P. aeruginosa multidrug-resistant. The results shows therapeutic potential of E. plicata, G. vellosii and P. pilosa in the control of bacterial infections involving multidrug-resistant phenotype (MDR) and its interaction with antibacterial agents may represent a new alternative in the therapy of these infections.
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Isoeleuterol e isoeleuterina: potenciais marcadores químicos da tintura de Eleutherine plicata Herb (Iridaceae) e atividades microbiológica e antioxidante
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2008-12-30) MALHEIROS, Luiz Claudio da Silva; VIEIRA, José Maria dos Santos; http://lattes.cnpq.br/6807452375674442; BARBOSA, Wagner Luiz Ramos; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1372405563294070
Eleutherine plicata Herb. is an Iridaceae, popularly known as marupazinho, widely used by people to treat diarrhea. With the bulb of the plant is about a cup of tea, which is used to treat infestations caused by amoeba. The plant material used in this study was collected in Belém do Pará and their identification by comparison of botany was deposited in exsiccates Paraense Emilio Goeldi Museum under nº 10543. The ethanol extract was prepared by percolation from the bulb previously dried and crushed. After drying the ethanol extract was suspended in a solution hydroalcoholic (1:1) and subjected to partition with solvents of increasing polarity. With the ethanol extract and the fractions were performed eighteen tests to detect classes of secondary metabolites. The ethanol extract and the fractions hexanic and chloroform, showed a positive result for naphthoquinones, anthraquinones and steroids and triperpenoids. The analysis by thin-layer chromatography fractions of ethanol extract and hexane and chloroform, showed areas susceptible to methanolic solution of KOH 10%, indicating the presence of quinones in these samples. The evaluation of the antimicrobial activity of ethanol extract and fractions hexanic and chloroform with strains of C. albicans, S. aureus, E. coli and P. aeruginosa, showed that the chloroform fraction is the most active, presenting the largest halos of inhibition of microbial growth, possibly containing a higher concentration of active constituents. The chemical constituents isoeleutherol and isoeleutherine were isolated from chloroform fraction, and were characterized chemically using RMN 1H e 13C, compared with the literature. The ethanol extract, isoeleutherol and isoeleutherine were submitted to evaluation of their antioxidant activies, and showed weak activity when compared with BHT.