The In Vitro Antimicrobial Effects of Lavandula angustifolia Essential Oil in Combination with Conventional Antimicrobial Agents

Table 4

The antimicrobial effect of the individual components within the essential oil : antimicrobial combination.

Microorganism	⁢MIC individual			ΣFIC	Interpretation
	LA	Antimicrobial
	(mg/mL)	(μg/mL)
C. albicans (ATCC 10231)	3.00	CH	0.63	1.00	Additive
		N	0.16	1.14	Noninteractive
S. aureus (ATCC 6538)	2.00	CH	0.31	0.75	Additive
		C	0.11	0.49	Synergistic
		FA	0.63	0.65	Additive
P. aeruginosa (ATCC 27858)	2.00	CH	0.31	0.29	Synergistic
		C	0.04	0.74	Additive
		FA	0.31	1.13	Noninteractive

LA indicates L. angustifolia essential oil, CH indicates chloramphenicol, N indicates nystatin, C indicates ciprofloxacin, and FA indicates fusidic acid.