“…Lippia alba (erva-cidreira) is native to Brazil and its essential oil, whose major compounds are citral (geranial and neral), carvone and linalool (Tavares, Julião, Lopes, Bizzo, Lage & Leitão 2005;Cunha, Chaves, Bizzo & Souza 2012), exhibits a number of biological properties, including antimicrobial, antiparasitic and anti-inflammatory activity (Lorenzi & Matos 2002), proven to act against A. hydrophila (Sutili, Cunha, Ziech, Krewer, Zeppenfeld, Heldwein, Gressler, Heinzmann, Vargas & Baldisserotto 2015). Essential oil of Lippia origanoides (Salva-de-Maraj o) contains carvacrol, thymol and c-terpinene, which have antiparasitic and antimicrobial properties and are efficient against Lactobacillus casei, Streptococcus mutans (Oliveira, Leitão, Bizzo, Lopes, Alviano, Alviano & Leitão 2007), Salmonella Enteritidis, Escherichia coli (Betancourt, Phandanauvong, Patiño, Ariza-Nieto & Afanador-T ellez 2012) and A. hydrophila (Henao, Muñoz, Padilha & R ıoz 2010).…”