Chemical Composition and Antimicrobial Activity of Essential Oil of Piper angustifolium

Bruno Tirillini; Eliana Rojas Velasquez; Roberto Pellegrino

doi:10.1055/s-2006-957911

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Planta Med 1996; 62(4): 372-373
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-957911

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Chemical Composition and Antimicrobial Activity of Essential Oil of Piper angustifolium

Bruno Tirillini¹ ^, ³ , Eliana Rojas Velasquez¹ , Roberto Pellegrino²

¹Istituto di Botanica, Università di Urbino, v. Bramante 28, I-61029 Urbino, Italy
²Istituto di Chimica Organica, Università di Perugìa, v. Elce di Sotto 8, I-06123 Perugia, Italy

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04 January 2007 (online)

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Abstract

The essential oil of Piper angustifolium Lam. was analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC/MS) technique. Camphor and camphene were the main constituents. This oil exhibited bacteriostatic and fungistatic activities against Trichophyton mentagrophytes, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Candida albicans, Cryptococcus neoformans, Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus fumigatus, and Escherichia coli.

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