%0 Journal Article
%T Antimicrobial Activities of Plant Extracts against <i>Streptococcus </i><i>pneumoniae</i> Isolated from Pediatric Patients at Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki, Ebonyi State
%A Euslar Nnenna Onu
%A Donatus Chukwuma Ilang
%A Cornelius Ituma Azi
%A Theophilus Onwe Eze
%A Chinedu Obasi Akpa
%A Oluwatoyin Oluwatosin Kelechi-Mathew
%A Okechukwu Emmanuel Ogbonna
%A Samuel Eleojo Agada
%J American Journal of Plant Sciences
%P 847-857
%@ 2158-2750
%D 2024
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ajps.2024.1510054
%X Antibiotic-resistant genes have become a threat to synthetic or conventional medications and because of this much work has been done on using plants and plants part to treat disease caused by bacteria, Herbal medicine has served as effective treatment against various diseases caused by pathogenic bacteria and multi drug-resistant strains of bacteria which made it advantageous over synthetic medications. This study aimed to reveal the sensitivity of <i>Streptococcus pneumoniae</i> from clinical isolate and perform antibacterial assay on the organism using plants leaf extracts of <i>Ocimum</i> <i>gratissimum</i>, <i>Sida</i><i> acuta</i>, <i>Newbouldia</i> <i>laevia</i> and <i>Mimosa </i><i>pudica</i><i>. </i>Gram staining and various biochemical test were used for the identification of <i>Streptococcus pneumoniae</i><i>.</i> The plants leaves were aseptically washed, dried and ground into fine powder and diluted in varying concentration and agar well diffusion method was used to test for the antimicrobial properties of this plants on <i>Streptococcus pneumoniae</i> at various concentrations as follows 0.1 g/ml, 0.4 g/ml, 0.6 g/ml and 1 g/ml. The plants extract of <i>Ocimum</i> <i>gratissimum</i> showed a greater antibacterial effects on <i>Streptococcus pneumoniae</i> in high concentration more than other plant extracts while <i>Sida</i> <i>acuta</i> and <i>Newbouldia</i> <i>laevia</i> plant extract showed weak antibacterial properties to the organism. This proves that <i>Ocimum</i> <i>gratissimum</i> and <i>Mimosa</i> <i>pudica</i> leaves have good and strong antibacterial properties against <i>Streptococcus pneumoniae</i> than <i>Sida</i><i> acuta </i>and <i>Newbouldia</i> <i>laevia</i> and can be used as antibacterial agent at adequate concentrations.
%K Conventional
%K Herbal
%K Antibacterial
%K Extracts
%K Concentrations
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=136533