Comparative Antimicrobial Activity of Lemon grass and Garlic Extracts

Comparative Antimicrobial Activity of Lemon grass (Cymbopogon Citratus) and Garlic (Allium Sativum) Extracts on Salmonella typhi is a book that expantiante on the medicinal use of Garlic and lemon grass especially in treatment of microbial diseases and infection such as Typhoid. The causative agent of Typhoid is Salmonella typhi. In the genesis of using plants for treatment of diseases Garlic and lemon grass was one of the earliest plants that have proven effective. In this study the antimicrobial effect of Cymbopogan citratus(lemon grass) and Allium sativum (garlic) extracts on clinical isolate of Salmonella typhi was examined. Water ethanol and methanol were used as extraction solvent. Antimicrobial effects of conventional antibiotics was assayed using disc diffusion method while antimicrobial activity of lemon grass and garlic extracts were carried out using agar well diffusion method and the zones of inhibition was measured in millimeter (mm).