Biofilm-Inhibitory Activity of Wild Mushroom Extracts against Pathogenic Bacteria
Table 6
Effect of T. elegans extracts on the growth of planktonic bacterial cells.
Test bacteria
Optical density of the test and the negative control bacteria at 620 nm
Chloroform
NC
70% ethanol
NC
Hot water
NC
P. aeruginosa
0.20 ± 0.00
0.20 ± 0.00
0.10 ± 0.02
0.10 ± 0.01
0.10 ± 0.00
0.10 ± 0.02
E. coli
0.20±0.02
0.30±0.01
0.20 ± 0.02
0.20 ± 0.02
0.20 ± 0.01
0.20 ± 0.01
S. aureus
0.30 ± 0.01
0.30 ± 0.00
0.10 ± 0.01
0.20 ± 0.01
0.20 ± 0.02
0.20 ± 0.00
NC: negative control; all extracts were tested at 250 μg/mL. The significance of the bold values is to indicate that the chloroform extract has shown promising results against E. coli even beyond the negative control.