Resumen de Valoración in vitro de la actividad antimicótica del extracto de SteviaRebaudiana contra la cándida Albicans, sucre 2011-2012.
In the last couple of years, Stevia has been very popular, mostly consumed as leaf teas, syrups and honey, but now as a product "processed". However, on the other hand, is also raised in the literature, the use as an antimycotic.
This paper aims to determine the antifungal activity of Stevia rebaudiana extracts at different concentrations against Candida albicans.
The way to determine if it really have antifungal activity , was performing the art of disk diffusion , for it extracts rebaudiana Stevia 10% , 20% and 30 % concentration , then embed filter paper disc was obtained , prepared above , and placing on the sowing performed with Candida albicans strains on the culture medium and Sabouraud dextrose agar to observe whether there halo formation and comparing inhibition halos formed with ketoconazole .
The work is considered to Candida albicans is sensitive to stevia extract at 30% as a halo of inhibition of 20 mm average compared with the inhibition halo formed with the antifungal ketoconazole which was 26 mm in average diameter were formed.
