Chemical Constituents and Antimicrobial and Antioxidant Activities of Essential Oil from Dried Seeds of Xylopia aethiopica

Table 3

Antimicrobial activity of the essential oil from X. aethiopica.

Microorganisms	Inhibition zone of essential oil (mm)	Minimum inhibitory concentration (mg/mL)
Staphylococcus aureus	33.4 ± 1.8	100
Enterococcus faecalis	21.9 ± 1.2	>100
Escherichia coli	11.3 ± 0.5	>100
Pseudomonas aeruginosa	R	—
Candida albicans	22.1 ± 0.7	50

R, resistant strain; —, not tested.