ManageChatDiscover
15156

Screening For Antiviral Activities of Aqueous Extracts of Some Egyptian Seaweeds

Article

Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

OverviewSimilar Items

Subjects

-

Tags

-

Abstract

Background: aqueous extracts of six species of marine seaweed were studied as antiviral activity on different viruses. Materials and methods: these collected from two sites Hurghada at the Red Sea and Al-Agami area in Alexandria Mediterranean Sea Egypt and belonging to the classes Chlorophyta, Phaeophyta and Rhodophyta were assayed for the cytotoxicity and antiviral activity by MTT [3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenlytetrezolium bromide] and by neutralization methods.  Results: these extracts have antiviral activity to herpes simplex virus types-1 (HSV-1) and type-2 (HSV-2), hepatitis A virus (HAV-H10), and Coxsackie B4 virus in Vero cells with very low cytotoxicity to the host cells.  

DOI

10.12816/0029035

Keywords

antivirus, Marine seaweed, Hurghada, Red Sea, Al-Agami, alexandria, Egypt

Authors

First Name

Shaimaa Ashour Abdel-Latif

Last Name

Zaid

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Microbiologist at Chemistry Administration, Ministry of Trade and Industry

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Kouka Saad El-Din

Last Name

Abdel-Wahab

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Microbiology Department, Faculty of Medicine for Girls, Al-Azhar University

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Nermine N.

Last Name

Abed

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science for Girls, Al-Azhar University

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Enas Kamal

Last Name

Abo El-Magd

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Microbiology Department, Faculty of Medicine for Girls, Al-Azhar University

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Rawheya Abdel-Latif

Last Name

Salah El-Din

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science for Girls, Al-Azhar University

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

64

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

3203

Issue Date

2016-07-01

Receive Date

2018-09-28

Publish Date

2016-07-01

Page Start

430

Page End

435

Print ISSN

1687-2002

Online ISSN

2090-7125

Article File

EJHM_Volume 64_Issue 1_Pages 430-435.pdf

PDF . 259.6kB

Link

https://ejhm.journals.ekb.eg/article_15156.html

Detail API

https://ejhm.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=15156

Order

18

Type

Original Article

Type Code

606

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine

Publication Link

https://ejhm.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Screening For Antiviral Activities of Aqueous Extracts of Some Egyptian Seaweeds

Details

Type

Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023