Abstract
This study was conducted to find out the antibacterial ability of a folk medicinal plant in Can Gio Mangrove Biosphere Reserve, Avicennia alba Blume. Leaf powder of A. alba derived from 3 different locations in the Biosphere Reserve was used to make ethanol extracts and decoctions. Methods to evaluate antibacterial ability included agar well diffusion, and Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) and Minimum Bactericidal Concentration (MBC). The results showed that the ethanol extract from Dan Xay site was resistant to 6 tested bacterial strains including Bacillus cereus, Bacillus subtilis, Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus faecium, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli. Most of the decoction samples had bacteriostatic and bactericidal properties with MBC/MIC rates ranging from 1.43 to 10.0.
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