Abstract
Enterobacteria are often responsible for various gastrointestinal foods borne infection in humans. But due to profuse use of commercial antibiotic and synthetic pesticides for human and crop protection growing incidences of drug-resistant pathogens of both clinical and agricultural importance have increased. This has aggravated the search for antimicrobials from plants sources. Medicinal plants have intrinsic ability to resist pathogenic microorganisms and this has led the researchers to investigate and explore them for the treatment of food borne infections of humans by developing new antimicrobial agents. The aim of this study was to evaluate the antimicrobial properties of hydroalcoholic leaf extracts of Asparagus racemosus against foodborne bacterial isolates isolated from fresh raw vegetables. Primary qualitative analysis showed presence of different phytochemicals in the leaf extracts. The leaf extracts were screened in vitro in the laboratory for their antibacterial activity against the isolated enteric bacteria, and the results showed that hydroalcoholic extracts of Asparagus racemosus can be optimized clinically for chemotherapeutic control of these food-borne enteric infections. In conclusion, Asparagus racemosus extract exhibits antimicrobial activities and thus might be developed as natural sanitizer for washing raw vegetables.
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