Evaluation of the Antimalarial Activity of Crude Extract of Eucalyptus globulus Labill. Leaf against Plasmodium berghei in Mice

Table 1

Chemosuppressive activity of 80% the methanol leaf extract of E. globulus against P. berghei infection in mice.

Treatment	% parasitemia	% parasitemia suppression	Mean survival time (day)
DW	29.60 ± 2.55	00.00	6.00 ± 0.58
CE (mg/kg)
100	14.80 ± 1.15	50.00^a3b3	10.50 ± 1.18^a2b3
200	11.60 ± 1.51	60.81^a3b3	11.83 ± 1.01^a3b3
400	10.83 ± 0.87	63.41^a3b3	13.33 ± 0.88^a3b3
CQ25 mg/kg	0.00 ± 0.00	100.00^a3	28.00 ± 0.00^a3

Data are expressed as mean ± SEM; n = 6. DW = distilled water, CE = crude extract, CQ = chloroquine, a = compared to negative control, b = compared to a standard drug, 1 = , 2 = , and 3 = .