Antimicrobial Potential and Phytochemical Screening of Clathria sp. 1 and Tedania (Tedania) stylonychaeta Sponge Crude Extracts Obtained from the South East Coast of South Africa

Table 3

Antimicrobial activity of dichloromethane: methanol derived crude extracts from marine sponges collected during spring against selected bacterial and fungal species.

Microbial species	Sponge species	Dichloromethane : methanol (1 : 1)
		Zone of inhibition at various concentrations (mm)
		24 mg/ml	19 mg/ml	14.4 mg/ml	9.6 mg/ml	7.2 mg/ml
Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)	Clathria sp. 1	0	0	0	0	0
	Tedania (Tedania) stylonychaeta	0	0	0	0	0
Pseudomonas aeruginosa	Clathria sp. 1	0	0	0	0	0
	Tedania (Tedania) stylonychaeta	0	0	0	0	0
Clostridium difficile	Clathria sp. 1	0	0	0	0	0
	Tedania (Tedania) stylonychaeta	0	0	0	0	0
Aspergillus fumigatus	Clathria sp. 1	0	0	0	0	0
	Tedania (Tedania) stylonychaeta	0	0	0	0	0
Candida albicans	Clathria sp. 1		0	0	0	0
	Tedania (Tedania) stylonychaeta	0	0	0	0	0