The antioxidant and antimicrobial activity of essential oils against Pseudomonas spp. isolated from fish

Miroslava Kačániová; Margarita Terentjeva; Nenad Vukovic; Czeslaw Puchalski; Shubhadeep Roychoudhury; Simona Kunová; Alina Klūga; Marián Tokár; Maciej Kluz; Eva Ivanišová

Saudi Pharmaceutical Journal (Dec 2017)

The antioxidant and antimicrobial activity of essential oils against Pseudomonas spp. isolated from fish

Miroslava Kačániová,
Margarita Terentjeva,
Nenad Vukovic,
Czeslaw Puchalski,
Shubhadeep Roychoudhury,
Simona Kunová,
Alina Klūga,
Marián Tokár,
Maciej Kluz,
Eva Ivanišová

Affiliations

Miroslava Kačániová: Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Sciences, Slovak University of Agriculture, Tr. A. Hlinku 2, 949 76 Nitra, Slovak Republic; Department of Bioenergy and Food Technology, Faculty of Biology and Agriculture, University of Rzeszow, Zelwerowicza St. 4, 35-601 Rzeszow, Poland; Corresponding author at: Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Sciences, Slovak University of Agriculture, Tr. A. Hlinku 2, 949 76 Nitra, Slovak Republic.
Margarita Terentjeva: Institute of Food and Environmental Hygiene, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Latvia University of Agriculture, K. Helmaņa iela 8, LV-3004, Jelgava, Latvia
Nenad Vukovic: University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry, P.O. Box 12, Serbia
Czeslaw Puchalski: Department of Bioenergy and Food Technology, Faculty of Biology and Agriculture, University of Rzeszow, Zelwerowicza St. 4, 35-601 Rzeszow, Poland
Shubhadeep Roychoudhury: Department of Life Science and Bioinformatics, Assam University, 788 011 Silchar, India
Simona Kunová: Department of Food Hygiene and Safety, Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Sciences, Slovak University of Agriculture, Tr. A. Hlinku 2, 949 76 Nitra, Slovak Republic
Alina Klūga: Institute of Food and Environmental Hygiene, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Latvia University of Agriculture, K. Helmaņa iela 8, LV-3004, Jelgava, Latvia
Marián Tokár: Department of Storing and Processing Plant Products, Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Sciences, Slovak University of Agriculture, Tr. A. Hlinku 2, 949 76 Nitra, Slovak Republic
Maciej Kluz: Faculty of Biology and Agriculture, University of Rzeszow, Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Zelwerowicza St. 4, 35-601 Rzeszow, Poland
Eva Ivanišová: Department of Storing and Processing Plant Products, Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Sciences, Slovak University of Agriculture, Tr. A. Hlinku 2, 949 76 Nitra, Slovak Republic

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 25, no. 8
pp. 1108 – 1116

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Natural products of plant origin, which include essential oils (EO) could be used as a growth inhibitor of pathogenic and spoilage microflora in food. The objective of this study was to determine the antibacterial and antioxidant activity of 21 EO against 10 Pseudomonas species isolated from freshwater fish. The chemical composition of EO was determined by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. The disc diffusion method and detection of minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) were used for the determination of the antimicrobial activity. All the EO tested exhibited antimicrobial activity, however, Cinnamomum zeylanicum EO was the most effective against Pseudomonas spp. both according to the disc diffusion and MIC methods. The EOs of Cymbopogon nardus, Origanum vulgare, Foeniculum vulgare and Thymus serpyllum showed the highest antioxidant activity of 93.86 μg, 83.47 μg, 76.74 μg and 74.28 μg TEAC/mL. Application of EO could be an effective tool for inhibition of growth of Pseudomonas spp. on fish. Keywords: Essential oils, Antimicrobial activity, Chemical composition, Antioxidant activity, Pseudomonas

Published in Saudi Pharmaceutical Journal

ISSN: 1319-0164 (Print)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: Saudi Arabia
LCC subjects: Medicine: Therapeutics. Pharmacology
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