Modulation of the Antibiotic Activity by Extracts from Amburana cearensis A. C. Smith and Anadenanthera macrocarpa (Benth.) Brenan

Table 6

MIC of the aminoglycosides in the presence and absence of ethanolic extracts of A.cearensis and A. macrocarpa at a concentration 128 μg/mL.

	EC 27			SA 358
Antibiotics	MIC	MIC; combined		MIC	MIC; combined
		EEAC	EEAM		EEAC	EEAM
Gentamicin	64	4	4	16	16	4
Amikacin	128	8	4	64	64	16

EEAC: ethanolic extract of Amburana cearensis; EEAM: ethanolic extract of Anadenanthera macrocarpa. EC: Escherichia coli, SA: Staphylococcus aureus.