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Antimicrobial activity in the tissue extracts of five species of cowries <i>Cypraea</i> spp. (Mollusca: Gastropoda) and an ascidian <i style="">Didemnum psammathodes </i>(Tunicata: Didemnidae)

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Title Antimicrobial activity in the tissue extracts of five species of cowries Cypraea spp. (Mollusca: Gastropoda) and an ascidian Didemnum psammathodes (Tunicata: Didemnidae)
 
Creator Anand, T. Prem
Edward, J. K. Patterson
 
Subject Marine natural products
antibacterial
molluscs
ascidians
 
Description 239-242
Five species of Cypraea (Cypraea errones, C. arabica, C. onyx, C. tigris and C. vitellus) were assayed for their antibacterial and antifungal activity against 15 bacterial pathogens and 3 fungal pathogens. Antibacterial and antifungal activities were exhibited only by C. errones extracts. An ascidian, Didemnum psammathodes, the principal diet of C. errones was also assayed for antimicrobial activity to evaluate whether the activity exhibited by C. errones was derived from its diet. The ascidian extract exhibited broad-spectrum antibacterial activity. Chromatographic fractionation of the extracts of C. errones and Didemnum psammathodes confirmed that the activity exhibited by C. errones was not diet derived.
 
Date 2009-05-26T13:05:58Z
2009-05-26T13:05:58Z
2002-09
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0379-5136
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/4343
 
Language en_US
 
Publisher CSIR
 
Source IJMS Vol.31(3) [September 2002]