Antimicrobial Activity Of Eichhornia Crassipes Against Mdr Clinical Pathogens

Eichhornia crassipes (Mart) solms., ordinarily known as water hyacinth is warm water aquatic plant and the world’s worst aquatic weed as it can grown quickly thereby closing water bodies and negatively affects the water bodies. It is one of the main problem to the water reservoir, Morna river of Akola city, but looking towards it’s medicinal value, supreme interest has been received to determine its antimicrobial potential against Multi Drug Resistant (MDR) bacteria. In this view the aqueous, aqueous and ethanol extracts of leaf and flower of water hyacinth were prepared and tested against the resistant bacteria by agar well diffusion method. A significant activity was noted by Distilled water extract against most of the isolates.