Phytochemical Analysis and Antioxidant, Antibacterial, and Antifungal Effects of Essential Oil of Black Caraway (Nigella sativa L.) Seeds against Drug-Resistant Clinically Pathogenic Microorganisms

Table 3

Antifungal activity and the MIC of essential oils extracted from seeds of black caraway Nigella sativa (EO-NS).

		Candida albicans ATCC 10231	Aspergillus niger MTCC 282	Aspergillus flavus MTCC 9606	Fusarium oxysporum MTCC 9913
EO-NS
Antifungal activity		mm^a	%^b	%^b	%^c
CMI (μg/mL)		^a	—	—	^b
Fluconazole
Antifungal activity		mm^a	%^b	%^a	%^c
CMI (μg/mL)		—	7.125^a	—	3.125^b

Means (± SD, ) labelled by different letters within the same row are considered significantly different (one-way ANOVA; Tukey’s test, ).