An in vitro study provides the basis for further study of 8 medicinal plants that may possess antimicrobial activity against the clinical isolates of oral cancer cases. Researchers isolated extracts of 10 plants used in traditional Indian medicine and found that Asphodelus tenuifolius Cav, Asparagus racemosus Willd, Balanites aegyptiaca L, Eclipta alba L, Murraya koenigii (L) Spreng, Pedalium murex L, Ricinus communis L. and Trigonella foenum graecum L showed significant antimicrobial activity (P <.05) against most of the isolates.
The provision article, as accepted for publication in Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials, is available online in BioMed Central (http://www.ann-clinmicrob.com/content/pdf/1476-0711-10-21.pdf).