Antibacterial activities of methanol extracts from Alchornea cordifolia and four other Cameroonian plants against MDR phenotypes

ABSTRACT

Objectives: Multidrug-resistant [MDR] bacterial infections, especially those caused by Gram-negative phe-notypes, have emerged as one of the major health concerns worldwide. In the present study, we investigated the antibacterial activity of methanol extracts from five Cameroonian medicinal plants [Alchornea cordifolia, Eremomastax speciosa, Laportea aestuans, Pennisetum purpureum and Spathodea campanulata] against 15 Gram-negative bacteria that included MDR phenotypes