Abstract
Medicinal plant extracts have a broad antimicrobial activity, including antiviral effects. In our study, eleven dry extracts of ten different medicinal plants prepared with two solvents (5%, dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and 30% ethanol in 5% DMSO) in different concentrations have been examined for anti-norovirus activity. The reduction of norovirus &gt;1 log10 genome equivalents has been obtained with 1 mg/mL of Aronia melanocarpa leaf extract, dried wine Prokupac and Hypericum perforatum extract. Some of the observed extracts i.e. Hypericum perforatum , Aronia melanocarpa fruit extract and Punica granatum peel extract showed better activity when dissolved in 30% ethanol with 5% DMSO. All results of anti-noroviral activity of tested extracts which achieved &lt;0.5 log10 genome equivalents were considered as not effective.<br />&nbsp;
Keywords: Human norovirus, medicinal plant extract, antiviral activity
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Živković, I., Šavikin, K., Zdunić, G., Živković, J., Bigović, D., Menković, N. & Radin, D., (2018) “Antiviral activity of medicinal plants extracts against foodborne norovirus”, Lekovite Sirovine 38(1), 31-34. doi: https://doi.org/10.5937/leksir1838031z
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