Thymus spp. (Thymus citriodorus, T. vulgaris) (Thyme)

In vitro screening for the antifungal activity of some Egyptian plant extracts against the fish pathogen Saprolegnia parasitica

“…Accordingly, worldwide investigators have mined the folk traditional medicines for a candidate. Many studies demonstrated promising anti-fungal activity of plant extracts against fish pathogenic fungi, in vivo fish experiments proved the efficacy by various plant extracts (ALsafah & AL-Faragi, 2017;Cao, Ou, Li, Yang, Zheng, & Lu, 2014;Chukanhom, Borisuthpeth, & Hatai, 2005;Hussein, El-Feki, Hatai, & Yamamoto, 2002;Hussein, Wada, Hatai, & Yamamoto, 2000;Ilondu, Arimoro, & Sodje, 2010;Yao et al, 2017;Zhen, Wang, Fan, & Lui, 2014). Furthermore, inhibition of fish egg mycosis was observed by other extracts (Khosravi, Shokri, Sharifrohani, Mousavi, & Moosavi, 2012;Li & Liu, 2015;Zeng et al, 2019).…”