Antibacterial Activity of Ethanolic extract of Cinnamon against clinical Isolates of Staphylococcus aureus Sangavi R.*, Gopinath P.**, Dr. Kumar Aravind*** 1Bachelor of Dental Surgery, Department of Microbiology, Saveetha Dental College and Hospital, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India 2Senior Lecturer, Department of Microbiology, Saveetha Dental College and Hospital, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India 3Professor, Department of Orthodontics, Saveetha Dental College and Hospitals, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India *Corresponding Author E-mail: sano.laj@gmail.com
**gopu.myco@gmail.com
***dr.aravind.s@gmail.com
Online published on 16 March, 2019. Abstract Staphylococci can cause many forms of infection like superficial skin lesions, osteomyelitis and endocarditis and more serious skin infections, nosocomial infection of surgical wounds. They are Gram-positive cocci 1μm in diameter. The aim of our study was to determine the antibacterial activity of cinnamon bark oil against Grampositive isolates belonging to Staphylococcus Top Keywords Staphylococcus aureus, Cinnamon, ethanol, resistance. Top |