<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mitchell Henry Wright</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Joseph Sirdaarta</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Alan White</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Anthony Carlson Greene</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ian Edwin Cock</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">GC-MS headspace analysis of Terminalia ferdinandiana fruit and leaf extracts which inhibit Bacillus anthracis growth</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pharmacognosy Journal</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Anthrax</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bacillus anthracis</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Combretastatin</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kakadu plum</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Metabolomics.</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">stilbene</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tannin</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Zoonotic</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2017</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">December 2016</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">9</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">73-82</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Terminalia ferdinandiana&lt;/em&gt; (Kakadu plum) is an endemic Australian plant with an extremely high antioxidant capacity. The fruit has long been used by the first Australians as a nutritional food and as a medicine and recent studies have reported its potent growth inhibitory activity against a broad panel of bacteria. Despite this, &lt;em&gt;T. ferdinandiana&lt;/em&gt; extracts are yet to be tested for the ability to inhibit the growth of &lt;em&gt;Bacillus anthracis&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;Materials and Methods:&lt;/strong&gt; Solvent extracts were prepared using both the fruit and leaf of Kakadu plum. The ability to inhibit the growth of &lt;em&gt;B. anthracis&lt;/em&gt; was investigated using a disc diffusion assay. Their MIC values were determined to quantify and compare their efficacies. Toxicity was determined using the &lt;em&gt;Artemia franciscana&lt;/em&gt; nauplii bioassay. The most potent extracts were investigated using non-targeted GC-MS head space analysis (with screening against a compound database) for the identification and characterisation of individual components in the crude plant extracts. &lt;strong&gt;Results:&lt;/strong&gt; Solvent extractions of &lt;em&gt;T. ferdinandiana&lt;/em&gt; fruit and leaf displayed good growth inhibitory activity in the disc diffusion assay against &lt;em&gt;B. anthracis&lt;/em&gt;. Fruit ethyl acetate and methanolic leaf extracts were particularly potent growth inhibitors, with MIC values of 451 and 377&amp;mu;g/mL respectively. The fruit methanolic and chloroform extracts, as well as the aqueous leaf extracts also were good inhibitors of &lt;em&gt;B. anthracis&lt;/em&gt; growth, albeit with lower efficacy (MIC values of 1800 and 1414 &amp;mu;g/mL respectively).The aqueous fruit extract and leaf chloroform extracts had only low inhibitory activity. All other extracts were completely devoid of growth inhibitory activity. Furthermore, all of the extracts with growth inhibitory activity were nontoxic in the &lt;em&gt;Artemia fransiscana&lt;/em&gt; bioassay, with LC50 values &amp;gt;1000 &amp;mu;g/mL. Non-biased GC-MS phytochemical analysis of the most active extracts (fruit ethyl acetate and methanolic leaf) putatively identified and highlighted several compounds that may contribute to the ability of these extracts to inhibit the growth of &lt;em&gt;B. anthracis&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;Conclusions: &lt;/strong&gt;The low toxicity of the &lt;em&gt;T. ferdinandiana&lt;/em&gt; fruit ethyl acetate and methanolic leaf extracts, as well as their potent growth inhibitory bioactivity against &lt;em&gt;B. anthracis&lt;/em&gt;, indicates their potential as medicinal agents in the treatment and prevention of anthrax.&lt;/p&gt;
</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></issue><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Original Article</style></work-type><section><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">73</style></section><auth-address><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mitchell Henry Wright&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, Joseph Sirdaarta&lt;sup&gt;1,2&lt;/sup&gt;, Alan White&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, Anthony Carlson Greene&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, Ian Edwin Cock&lt;sup&gt;1,2&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;School of Natural Sciences, Nathan Campus, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;Environmental Futures Research Institute, Nathan Campus, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia&lt;/p&gt;
</style></auth-address></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mitchell Henry Wright</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Anthony Carlson Greene</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ian Edwin Cock</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Inhibition of Bacillus anthracis growth by Australian native plants used traditionally as antibacterial medicines</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pharmacognosy Journal</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Anthrax</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Antibacterial activity</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bacillus anthracis</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Eucalyptus</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Scaevola spinescens</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tasmannia stipitata</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Traditional medicine.</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Zoonotic</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2015</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">01/2015</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">7</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">389-396</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Introduction:&lt;/strong&gt; Anthrax is a zoonotic disease caused by the bacterium &lt;em&gt;Bacillus anthracis&lt;/em&gt;. It is often fatal if left untreated. Many Australian plants have documented therapeutic properties as general antiseptics, inhibiting the growth of a wide variety of bacterial species. This study examines the ability of selected Australian plant extracts to inhibit &lt;em&gt;B. anthracis&lt;/em&gt; growth. &lt;strong&gt;Methods:&lt;/strong&gt; Solvent extracts were prepared using plants with documented ethnobotanical usage to treat bacterial infections, or published antibacterial activity. The extracts were investigated by disc diffusion assay for the ability to inhibit the growth of an environmental strain of &lt;em&gt;B. anthracis&lt;/em&gt;. Their MIC values were determined to quantify and compare their efficacies. Toxicity was determined using the &lt;em&gt;Artemia franciscana&lt;/em&gt; nauplii bioassay.&lt;strong&gt; Results:&lt;/strong&gt; Methanolic and aqueous extracts of &lt;em&gt;Eucalyptus baileyana&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Eucalyptus major&lt;/em&gt; displayed potent antibacterial activity in the disc diffusion assay against &lt;em&gt;B. anthracis&lt;/em&gt;. The methanolic extracts were particularly potent with MIC values as low as 290 &amp;mu;g/mL (&lt;em&gt;E. major &lt;/em&gt;methanolic extract). &lt;em&gt;Tasmannia insipidia&lt;/em&gt; and&lt;em&gt; Tasmannia stipitata&lt;/em&gt; extracts also inhibited &lt;em&gt;B. anthracis &lt;/em&gt;growth, albeit with low efficacy. The &lt;em&gt;E. baileyana&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;E. major&lt;/em&gt; methanolic leaf extracts as well as the &lt;em&gt;E. baileyana&lt;/em&gt; aqueous leaf extract induced significant mortality in the &lt;em&gt;Artemia fransiscana&lt;/em&gt; bioassay, with LC&lt;sub&gt;50&lt;/sub&gt; values substantially &amp;lt;1000 &amp;mu;g/mL, indicating the toxicity of these extracts. &lt;strong&gt;Conclusion:&lt;/strong&gt; The potent inhibitory bioactivity of the &lt;em&gt;E. baileyana&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;E. major&lt;/em&gt; extracts against &lt;em&gt;B. anthracis&lt;/em&gt; demonstrate their potential as medicinal agents in the treatment and prevention of anthrax. However, their toxicity indicates that their use may be limited to the treatment of the cutaneous form of the disease, or for sterilisation of infected sites.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">6</style></issue><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Original Article</style></work-type><section><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">389</style></section><auth-address><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mitchell Henry Wright&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, Anthony Carlson Greene&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; and Ian Edwin Cock&lt;sup&gt;1,2* &lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;School of Natural Sciences, Nathan Campus, Griffith University, 170 Kessels Rd, Nathan, Queensland 4111, Australia.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;Environmental Futures Research Institute, Nathan Campus, Griffith University, 170 Kessels Rd, Nathan, Queensland 4111, Australia.&lt;/p&gt;
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