Many substances have been reported as
antibacterial agents and some as antifungal in the scientific literature. The
aim of this study was to evaluate the antifungal potential of three main
compounds of essential oils, β-Ionone; carvone and 1,8-cineole, against the
growth of spores of Aspergillus niger strain.
For that purpose, the spores of the studied
strain were exposed to successive concentrations of these three compounds to
determine their minimum inhibitory (MIC) and fungicidal (MFC) concentrations
against this pathogenic strain by the microdilution method using the 96 well
microtiter plates.
The obtained results have shown the capacity
of three compounds to inhibit the growth of A. niger spores with low values of
CMIs determined for β-Ionone (2.5%), carvone (0.625%) and 1,8cineole (1.25%).
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