Open AccessEvaluation of antibacterial activity of three selected fruit juices on clinical endodontic bacterial strains
Author(s) -
Subasish Behera,
Prashant Khetrapal,
Sandhya Kapoor Punia,
Deepak Agrawal,
Minal Khandelwal,
Jitendra Lohar
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of pharmacy and bioallied sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.268
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 0976-4879
pISSN - 0975-7406
DOI - 10.4103/jpbs.jpbs_164_17
Subject(s) - antimicrobial , agar diffusion test , food science , streptococcus mutans , antibacterial activity , microorganism , enterococcus faecalis , agar , chemistry , microbiology and biotechnology , bacteria , biology , staphylococcus aureus , genetics
The increasing problem of antibiotic drug resistance by pathogenic microorganisms in the past few decades has recently led to the continuous exploration of natural plant products for new antibiotic agents. Many consumable food materials have good as well as their bad effects, good effect includes their antibacterial effects on different microorganisms present in the oral cavity. Recently, natural products have been evaluated as source of antimicrobial agent with efficacies against a variety of microorganisms.