In vitro antimycobacterial and cytotoxic data on medicinal plants used to treat tuberculosis

Joseph M Nguta; Regina Appiah-Opong; Alexander K Nyarko; Dorothy Yeboah-Manu; Phyllis G A Addo; Isaac D Otchere; Abena Kissi-Twum

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2016.03.088

In vitro antimycobacterial and cytotoxic data on medicinal plants used to treat tuberculosis

Data Brief. 2016 Apr 1:7:1124-30. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2016.03.088. eCollection 2016 Jun.

Authors

Joseph M Nguta¹, Regina Appiah-Opong², Alexander K Nyarko², Dorothy Yeboah-Manu³, Phyllis G A Addo⁴, Isaac D Otchere³, Abena Kissi-Twum²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical Pathology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Ghana; Department of Public Health, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Nairobi, Kenya.
² Department of Clinical Pathology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Ghana.
³ Department of Bacteriology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Ghana.
⁴ Department of Animal Experimentation, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Ghana.

Abstract

This article contains data on in vitro antimycobacterial activity and cytotoxicity of hydroethanolic crude extracts from five selected medicinal plant species traditionally used to treat tuberculosis in Ghanaian ethnomedicine, see "Medicinal plants used to treat TB in Ghana" [1]. The interpretation and discussion of these data and further extensive insights into drug discovery against tuberculosis from natural products of plant biodiversity can be found in "Antimycobacterial and cytotoxic activity of selected medicinal plant extracts" [2].

Keywords: Crude extracts; MABA assay; MTS assay; Medicinal plants; Tuberculosis; in vitro antimycobacterial; in vitro cytotoxicity.