Chemical Composition and Antimicrobial Activity of Essential Oil of Endemic Origanum bilgeri P. H. Davis for Turkey

Kose E., ÖNGÜT G., YANIKOĞLU A.

JOURNAL OF ESSENTIAL OIL BEARING PLANTS, cilt.16, sa.2, ss.233-242, 2013 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 16 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2013
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/0972060x.2013.794005
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF ESSENTIAL OIL BEARING PLANTS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.233-242
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Origanum bilgeri, Lamiaceae, essential oil, GC-MS analysis, antimicrobial effect MRSA, VRE, IN-VITRO ACTIVITY, INSECTICIDAL PROPERTIES, ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITIES, CARVACROL, ANTIBIOTICS, VULGARE, THYMOL, ANTIFUNGAL, ACUTIDENS, EXTRACTS
  • Akdeniz Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The present study describes chemical composition and antimicrobial activity of the essential oil from Origanum bilgeri, which is endemic for Turkey. The essential oil was obtained by hydrodistillation and components of the essential oil were analyzed by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS). The major component of O. bilgeri essential oil was carvacrol (84.8 %) and p-cymene (4.0 %), gamma-terpinene (3.3 %) were the other components. Antimicrobial activity of the essential oil was investigated against standard control and resistant strains, using disc diffusion, minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC) methods. O. bilgeri essential oil showed very strong antimicrobial activity against all tested pathogenic bacteria except P. aeruginosa. Especially, it is important that the essential oil was more effective than antibiotics tested against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecalis (VRE).