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Title: 
Plantas do cerrado brasileiro com atividade contra Mycobacterium fortuitum
Other Titles: 
Brazilian cerrado plants active against Mycobacterium fortuitum
Author(s): 
Institution: 
  • Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
  • UNIPAR
  • Instituto Adolfo Lutz (IAL)
ISSN: 
  • 1808-4532
  • 2179-443X
Abstract: 
  • Mycobacterium fortuitum is a rapidly-growing species of bacteria, ubiquitous in the environment and related to important human mycobacterioses. It has been isolated from blood, abscesses, the endocardium and surgical and traumatic wounds. This mycobacterium is hard to treat, being recognized in the literature as resistant even to the drugs used in the treatment of tuberculosis. The objective of this study was to screen extracts prepared from plants of the Brazilian cerrado (extended savanna-like belt) with known activity against M. fortuitum, employing the Microplate Alamar Blue Assay (MABA) as the analytical method. Out of 26 extracts tested against M. fortuitum, the nonpolar extract of Quassia amara (in methylene dichloride) gave the best result (MIC 62.5μg/ mL), followed by the nonpolar extracts of Syngonanthus macrolepsis, Davilla elliptica and Turnera ulmifolia, with equal MICs of 125μg/ml. The polar extracts (in ethanol and methanol) obtained from the same plants were considered inactive, since the MIC values determined were above 500μg/mL and not significantly different from those of extracts from other plants, without known activity.
  • Mycobacterium fortuitum é uma micobactéria de crescimento rápido, ubíquo na natureza e relacionada a micobacteriose de importância médica. Ela tem sido isolada de bacteremias, abscessos, endocardites, feridas cirúrgicas e traumáticas. De difícil tratamento, o bacilo é reconhecido na literatura como resistente inclusive aos medicamentos utilizados na terapêutica da tuberculose. O objetivo deste trabalho foi pesquisar extratos vegetais do Cerrado brasileiro com atividade contra M. fortuitum, empregando a técnica do Microplate Alamar Blue Assay (MABA) como método analítico. Dos 26 extratos testados frente ao M. fortuitum, o extrato apolar de Quassia amara (extrato diclorometanico) foi o que apresentou melhor resultado com valor de CIM de 62,5µg/mL seguidos pelos extratos apolares de Syngonanthus macrolepsis, Davilla elliptica, Turnera ulmifolia com CIM de 125µg/mL. Para as mesmas plantas analisadas, utilizando-se agentes extratores polares (etanol e metanol), foram verificados CIM superiores a 500µg/mL. Os valores foram semelhantes aos de extratos de outras plantas analisadas sendo considerados não promissores. Palavras-chave: M. fortuitum, plantas do Cerrado, fitoterápicos, Microplate Alamar Blue Assay (MABA).
Issue Date: 
1-Dec-2005
Citation: 
Revista de Ciencias Farmaceuticas Basica e Aplicada, v. 26, n. 3, p. 195-198, 2005.
Time Duration: 
195-198
Keywords: 
  • Cerrado plants
  • M. fortuitum
  • Microplate Alamar Blue Assay (MABA)
  • Phytotherapy
  • Ananas ananassoides extract
  • Byrsonima cinera extract
  • Cerrado extract
  • Cissus suscicaulis extract
  • Davilla elliptica extract
  • Eriocaulon ligulatum extract
  • Leiothrix flavescens extract
  • Maoriri pusa extract
  • plant extract
  • Quassia amara extract
  • Solanum ceruum extract
  • Strychnos pseudoquina extract
  • Syngonanthus artrothichus extract
  • Syngonanthus bissulcatus extract
  • Syngonanthus macrolepsis extract
  • Syngonanthus xerantemoides extract
  • Turnera ulmifolia extract
  • assay
  • drug effect
  • Mycobacterium fortuitum
  • phytotherapy
  • scrub
Source: 
http://serv-bib.fcfar.unesp.br/seer/index.php/Cien_Farm/article/view/422
URI: 
Access Rights: 
Acesso aberto
Type: 
outro
Source:
http://repositorio.unesp.br/handle/11449/68635
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