Plant species from the Peruvian Amazon rainforest (Peru) and their antimicrobial activity

V Roumy; AL Gutierrez-Choquevilca; JP Lopez Mesia; L Ruiz; J Ruiz; A Abedini; T Hennebelle; C Neut

doi:10.1055/s-0032-1320603

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Planta Med 2012; 78 - PF56
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1320603

Plant species from the Peruvian Amazon rainforest (Peru) and their antimicrobial activity

V Roumy ¹, AL Gutierrez-Choquevilca ², JP Lopez Mesia ³, L Ruiz ³, J Ruiz ³, A Abedini ¹, T Hennebelle ¹, C Neut ⁴

¹Laboratoire de Pharmacognosie, EA 4481, Université de Lille, 59006 Lille, France
²Laboratoire EREA, LESC, UMR 7186 CNRS Villejuif/Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre La Défense, France
³Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana (UNAP), Iquitos, Perú
⁴Laboratoire de Bactériologie, U995, Université de Lille, 59006 Lille, France

Congress Abstract

The plant species reported here are traditionally used by Indigenous and Mestizo populations from the Iquitenian surroundings (Peruvian Amazon) for microbial infections. Inhabitants of various ethnic origins were interviewed and selected plants extracts were evaluated for their antimicrobial properties against 36 sensitive and multi-resistant bacteria or fungi. Of the 39 plants analyzed (50 methanolic extracts), 9 species showed MIC ≤0.3mg/ml for one or several microorganisms and only 6 extracts were inactive. This study supports the traditional use of these plants. It may help to discover new chemical classes of antibiotics that could serve as selective agents against multi-resistant bacteria.