Zaid, S., Abdel-Wahab, K., Abed, N., Abo El-Magd, E., Salah El-Din, R. (2016). Screening For Antiviral Activities of Aqueous Extracts of Some Egyptian Seaweeds. The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine, 64(1), 430-435. doi: 10.12816/0029035
Shaimaa Ashour Abdel-Latif Zaid; Kouka Saad El-Din Abdel-Wahab; Nermine N. Abed; Enas Kamal Abo El-Magd; Rawheya Abdel-Latif Salah El-Din. "Screening For Antiviral Activities of Aqueous Extracts of Some Egyptian Seaweeds". The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine, 64, 1, 2016, 430-435. doi: 10.12816/0029035
Zaid, S., Abdel-Wahab, K., Abed, N., Abo El-Magd, E., Salah El-Din, R. (2016). 'Screening For Antiviral Activities of Aqueous Extracts of Some Egyptian Seaweeds', The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine, 64(1), pp. 430-435. doi: 10.12816/0029035
Zaid, S., Abdel-Wahab, K., Abed, N., Abo El-Magd, E., Salah El-Din, R. Screening For Antiviral Activities of Aqueous Extracts of Some Egyptian Seaweeds. The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2016; 64(1): 430-435. doi: 10.12816/0029035
Screening For Antiviral Activities of Aqueous Extracts of Some Egyptian Seaweeds
1Microbiologist at Chemistry Administration, Ministry of Trade and Industry
2Microbiology Department, Faculty of Medicine for Girls, Al-Azhar University
3Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science for Girls, Al-Azhar University
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.