Article
Use of Essential Oils of the Genus Citrus as Biocidal Agents
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GOMES, Marcos S. et al. Use of Essential Oils of the Genus Citrus as Biocidal Agents. American Journal of Plant Sciences, p. 299-305, 2014.
2158-2742
10.4236/ajps.2014.53041
Autor
Gomes, Marcos S.
Cardoso, Maria das Graças
Soares, Maurilio José
Batista, Luís R.
Machado, Samísia M. F.
Andrade, Milene Aparecida
Azeredo, Camila Maria Oliveira de
Resende, Juliana Maria Valério
Rodrigues, Leonardo Milani Avelar
Resumen
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), Fundação de Amparo e Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG), Fiocruz In this study, the essential oils extracted from the peels of Citrus aurantifolia, Citrus limon and Citrus sinensis
were chemically characterized and quantified. These essential oils and their standards limonene, citral and limonene + citral were evaluated (at concentrations ranging from 500 to 3.91 mL·mL−1) regarding their anti-trypanosome, antifungal and antibacterial activities. The chemical identification and quantification (by GC/FID
and GC/MS) displayed the limonene as the major component of the three essential oils. It did not verified antitrypanosome activity for all treatments. Regarding antimicrobial activity, the results were satisfactory against Gram-negative bacteria (Staphylococcus aureus, Listeria. monocytogenes and Salmonella cholerasuis) and funghi (Aspergillus niger, A. flavus and A. carbonarius), except for the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which showed no inhibition for any treatment used.