Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) Of various synthetic and natural antimicrobial agents using E coli screened from VIT sewage treatment plant*

The Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) Test is an important evaluating tool in the field of microbiology. It gives us an idea of the microbial activity assessment in any source sample containing microbes. Validating the effectiveness of disinfection and decontamination is a vital and often challenging task. In clinical and laboratory environments, presence of sterile conditions is a compulsion and various disinfectants are used to sterilize the surroundings from bacteria, fungi and other microorganisms. The broth dilution and agar diffusion methods of MIC Test tell us about the efficiency of the disinfectant under use. By subjecting a given disinfectant sample to the MIC Test, we can find out its efficiency in lysing the microorganisms present in the inoculums. Thus two or more disinfectants can be compared also at the same time to test their lysing capacity under normal conditions. The MIC Test also helps to choose the more economic disinfectant from a given batch of disinfectants. The results obtained from the MIC Test can also be used to prepare a new anti microbial agent which has greater efficiency in lysing the microorganisms and is economic financially. Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) of various synthetic like chloramphenical, chloroxylenol and 10% hydrochloric acid with butyl oleylamine in aqueous solution), and natural antimicrobial agents like Sample C (Grass extract) and Sample D (Grass+Neem extract) using E coli screened from VIT sewage treatment plant will be discussed.