In-vitro anti-microbial activity of methanolic extract of Atropa belladonna using the agar well diffusion method

Abstract

Traditional plants have many medicinal values including the treatment of different infectious diseases. In the assessment of conventional claims, scientific research is foremost. For this reason, the methanolic extract of Atropa Belladonna were evaluated at different concentration for antimicrobial activity against medically important bacteria viz. Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumonia. The in vitro antimicrobial activity was performed by agar well diffusion method. The methanolic extract of Atropa belladonna exhibit considerable degree of antimicrobial activity against the tested gram negative and gram-positive bacterial strains.