Composition and Antimicrobial Activity of Essential Oil ofSatureja montanaL. Collected in Serbia and Montenegro
- 1 July 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Essential Oil Research
- Vol. 17 (4), 462-465
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10412905.2005.9698965
Abstract
The chemical composition of the essential oil of Satureja montana L. subsp. montana (Lamiaceae), obtained from the air-dried plant material by hydrodistillation, was analyzed using GC and GC/MS. The major components were thymol (33.4%) and p-cymene (28.8%). The essential oil was tested against five bacterial species by the agar well diffusion technique. All of the bacteria are potential skin contaminants. The oil and its 5% solution in ethanol showed antimicrobial activity against all of the tested bacteria. The most susceptible organisms were Corynebacterium sp., while the most resistant organism was Pseudomonas aeruginosa.Keywords
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