Anti-dermatophyte efficacy and environmental safety of some essential oils commercial and in vitro extracted pure and combined against four keratinophilic pathogenic fungi

Ibrahim, Sahar Yassin; Abd El-Salam, Magda Magdy

doi:10.1007/s12199-015-0462-6

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Table 2 Antifungal index (%) of pure and combined extracted oils at different concentrations (µg/ml)

From: Anti-dermatophyte efficacy and environmental safety of some essential oils commercial and in vitro extracted pure and combined against four keratinophilic pathogenic fungi

	Oil extract and oil mixtures concentration (µg/ml)	Dermatophyte fungal strains
		Microsporum canis	Epidermophyton floccosum	Trichophyton rubrum	Trichophyton mentagrophytes
		\( \overline{x} \) of antifungal index (%) ± SD
P. armeniaca	50	30.11 ± 0.3	33.46 ± 0.2	30.73 ± 0.29	31.91 ± 0.29
P. armeniaca	100	100 ± 0	98.00 ± 0.29	97.00 ± 0.5	96.01 ± 0.25
P. dulcis var. amara	50	29.60 ± 0.58	30.63 ± 1	30.73 ± 0.58	28.61 ± 0.25
P. dulcis var. amara	100	89.34 ± 0.02	88.56 ± 0.05	90.49 ± 0.29	88.00 ± 0.76
M. piperita	50	30.00 ± 1	28.88 ± 1.2	29.11 ± 1	29.35 ± 0.9
M. piperita	100	88.39 ± 0.23	86.99 ± 0.25	88.79 ± 0.48	87.19 ± 0.74
O. europaea	50	26.96 ± 1	27.98 ± 0.76	28.00 ± 0.5	30.12 ± 0.9
O. europaea	100	82.99 ± 0.35	85.00 ± 0.4	84.89 ± 0.45	83.45 ± 0.26
P. armeniaca + P. dulcis var. amara	50	60.28 ± 0.17	60.10 ± 0.32	58.94 ± 0.47	58.11 ± 0.11
P. armeniaca + P. dulcis var. amara	100	100 ± 0	100 ± 0	100 ± 0	100 ± 0
P. armeniaca + O. europaea	50	55.09 ± 0.15	56.66 ± 0.26	55.95 ± 0.58	54.13 ± 0.36
P. armeniaca + O. europaea	100	100 ± 0	99.54 ± 0.29	100 ± 0	99.00 ± 0.2
P. armeniaca + M. piperita	50	56.96 ± 0.29	57.98 ± 0.01	58.00 ± 0.29	60.12 ± 0.48
P. armeniaca + M. piperita	100	100 ± 0	100 ± 0	100 ± 0	100 ± 0
P. dulcis var. amara + M. piperita	50	58.91 ± 0.06	60.03 ± 0.76	57.88 ± 0.29	58.77 ± 1.53
P. dulcis var. amara + M. piperita	100	100 ± 0	100 ± 0	99.54 ± 0.33	98.98 ± 0.5
P. dulcis var. amara + O. europaea	50	50.48 ± 0.76	50.90 ± 0.29	48.64 ± 0.58	48.13 ± 0.5
P. dulcis var. amara + O. europaea	100	100 ± 0	100 ± 0	99.22 ± 0.11	98.99 ± 0.005
O. europaea + M. piperita	50	40.28 ± 0.58	40.10 ± 1.29	38.94 ± 0.82	38.11 ± 0.39
O. europaea + M. piperita	100	95.23 ± 0.29	94.56 ± 1.15	95.55 ± 0.58	94.00 ± 0.41
P. armeniaca + P. dulcis var. amara + M. piperita + O. europaea	50	68.56 ± 0.06	67.34 ± 0.06	69.56 ± 0.06	65.28 ± 0.06
	100	100 ± 0	100 ± 0	100 ± 0	100 ± 0
Z-test		11.868	12.051	15.808	16.142
p value		0.000^a	0.005*	0.007*	0.003*

^* Significant results

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