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Antifungal activity of Artemisia herba-alba on various Fusarium

Activité antifongique de l’armoise blanche sur différents Fusarium

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Abstract

Essential oils have many therapeutic properties. In herbal medicine, they are used for their antiseptic properties against infectious diseases of fungal origin, against dermatophytes, and those of bacterial origin. The aim of our study is to determine the antifungal effect of essential oils of Artemisia herba-alba on some pathogenic fungi. It is a medicinal plant used in traditional therapy. Essential oils have many therapeutic properties. In herbal medicine, they are used for their antiseptic properties against infectious diseases of fungal origin, against dermatophytes, and those of bacterial origin. Humans use plants for thousands of years to treat various ailments in many developing countries; much of the population relies on traditional practitioners and their collections of medicinal plants to cure them. The test adopted is based on the diffusion method on solid medium (Antibiogram); this method allows the determination of the susceptibility or resistance of an organism according to the sample studied. Our study reveals that the essential oil of the plant Artemisia herba-alba has a different effect on the resistance of germs.

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Les huiles essentielles ont de nombreuses propriétés thérapeutiques. En phytothérapie, elles sont utilisées pour leurs propriétés antiseptiques contre les maladies fongiques infectieuses (dermatophytes) et celles d’origine bactérienne. Le but de notre étude était de déterminer l’effet antifongique de l’huile essentielle d’Artemisia herba-alba. C’est une plante médicinale utilisée dans la thérapie traditionnelle. Les huiles essentielles ont de nombreuses propriétés thérapeutiques. En phytothérapie, elles sont utilisées pour leurs propriétés antiseptiques contre les maladies infectieuses d’origine fongique, contre des dermatophytes, contre les maladies d’origine bactérienne. Les êtres humains utilisent les plantes depuis des milliers d’années pour traiter diverses affections, dans de nombreux pays en développement; une grande partie de la population se repose sur les praticiens traditionnels et leurs collections de plantes médicinales pour les guérir. Le critère retenu est fondé sur la méthode de diffusion sur un milieu solide (antibiogramme), cette méthode permet de déterminer la sensibilité ou la résistance d’un organisme selon l’échantillon étudié. Notre étude révèle que l’huile essentielle de l’armoise herbe blanche a un effet différent sur la résistance des germes.

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  1. Faculty of Natural Sciences and Life, University of Ghardaia, Ghardaia, Algeria

    M. Mehani

  2. Laboratory of Process Engineering, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Ouargla, 30000, Ouargla, Algeria

    M. Mehani, L. Segni, B. Goudgil & S. Benchikh

  3. Consiglio per La Ricerca e la sperimentazione in Agricoltura, CREA-GPG, Genomics Research Centre, Via San Protaso 302, 29017, Fiorenzuola d’Arda (PC), Italy

    V. Terzi, C. Morcia & R. Ghizzoni

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Mehani, M., Segni, L., Terzi, V. et al. Antifungal activity of Artemisia herba-alba on various Fusarium . Phytothérapie (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10298-016-1071-2

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