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eCAM 2007 4(Supplement 1):17-20; doi:10.1093/ecam/nem108
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© 2007 The Author(s).
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Antimicrobial Activities of Essential Oil and Methanol Extract of Teucrium montanum

Nenad Vukovic, Tanja Milosevic, Slobodan Sukdolak and Slavica Solujic

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Kragujevac, PO Box 12, Serbia

This study was designed to examine the chemical composition of essential oil and the in vitro antimicrobial activities of essential oil and methanol extract of Teucrium montanum. The inhibitory effects of essential oil and methanol extracts of T. montanum were tested against 13 bacterial and three fungal species by using disc-diffusion method. GC/MS analyses revealed that essential oil contains mainly {delta}-cadinene (17.19%), ß-selinene (8.16%) {alpha}-calacorene (4.97%), 1,6-dimethyl-4-(1-methylethyl)-naphthalene (4.91%), caryophyllene (4.35%), copaene (4.23%), torreyol (3.91%), 4-terpineol (3.90%), cadina-1,4-diene (3.39%), ß-sesquiphellandrene (3.34%), {tau}-cadinol (3.12%) and {gamma}-curcumene (3.18%). The essential oil has antibacterial as well as antifungal effect.

Keywords: antimicrobial activity – essential oil – Teucrium montanum

For reprints and all correspondence: Nenad Vukovic, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science,University of Kragujevac, PO Box 12, Serbia. Tel: +38134336223; Fax: +38134336085; E-mail: nvukovic{at}kg.ac.yu


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