ANTIPARASITIC ACTIVITY OF MYRRH CRUDE EXTRACT AND MYRRH VOLATILE OIL COMPARED TO ALBENDAZOLE AGAINST TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS MUSCULAR LARVAE IN VITRO | ||||
Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology | ||||
Article 12, Volume 50, Issue 2, August 2020, Page 307-314 PDF (1.09 MB) | ||||
Document Type: Original Article | ||||
DOI: 10.21608/jesp.2020.113052 | ||||
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Authors | ||||
SALWA M. ABD-ELRAHMAN1; AHMED K. DYAB2; ABEER E. MAHMOUD2; SHYMAA M. MOSTAFA3; NAHED A. ELOSSILY2 | ||||
1Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine | ||||
2Department of Medical Parasitology Faculty of Medicine | ||||
3Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy | ||||
Abstract | ||||
Trichinellosis is a foodborne zoonotic disease caused by T. spiralis affecting human and animals. Treatment with commercially available drugs has not been satisfactory due to rapid development of drug-resistant particularly against encapsulated larvae. There is an increasing need to discover alternative anthelminthics agents from medicinal plants. The present study evaluated the in vitro antiparasitic activities of myrrh crude extract and myrrh volatile oil on T. spiralis larvae compared to albendazole to estimate their sublethal concentrations on the infectivity of T. spiralis larvae in mice. The in vitro effect of these agents was evaluated by assessing mortality rate and by a scanning electron microscopic analysis of ultrastructural changes in the cuticle of the larvae. The surface changes induced by crude myrrh extract and albendazole were more severe than those observed after exposure to myrrh volatile oil. All responses to the substances were time dose-dependent and highly significantly different from the control group < br />(p < 0.001). 100% mortality rate of larvae occurred on the 4th day at 3, 5, &7mg/ml of myrrh crude extract, on the 7th day with volatile oil while total larval death occurred on the 1st day of exposure in to 5, 10, 15 & 20μg/ml of albendazole. In vitro exposure to sublethal dose of albendazole, crude myrrh extract and volatile oil extract resulted in infectivity reduction by 100%, 98% & 88% respectively in intestinal phase and 100%, 98% &59% respectively in muscular phase. | ||||
Keywords | ||||
In vitro; Trichinella spiralis; Albendazole; Myrrh crude; Myrrh volatile oil | ||||
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