Journal of Medicinal Chemistry and Toxicology Journal of Medicinal Chemistry and Toxicology Journal of Medicinal Chemistry and Toxicology Journal of Medicinal Chemistry and Toxicology 2575-808XOmmega Online PublishersNew Jersey, USA129810.15436/2575-808X.17.1298Research ArticleAntimicrobial activity studies from poisonous short nosed tripod fish, Triacanthus biaculeatus (Bloch, 1786) from Visakhapatnam coastal waters, IndiaAntimicrobial activity studies from poisonous short nosed tripod fish, Triacanthus biaculeatus (Bloch, 1786) from Visakhapatnam coastal waters, IndiaMUDDULA KRISHNA NARANJI 1Department of Marine Living Resources College of Science and Technology Andhra University Visakhapatnam Andhra Pradesh India 2Department of Botany College of Science and Technology Andhra University Visakhapatnam Andhra Pradesh India 3Department of Microbiology College of Science and Technology Andhra University Visakhapatnam Andhra Pradesh India Editor* E-mail: krishna.muddu217@gmail.com
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20172801201721JMCT-17-RA-129807012017200120172017Creative Commons Attribution LicenseThis is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. nbsp emsp emsp An antimicrobial validatory screening of short nosed tripod fish Triacanthus biaculeatus Bloch 1786 collected from the Visakhapatnam coastal waters India is done in such a way T biaculeatus muscle extracts were subjected for antimicrobial assay Antimicrobial screening assay was done in five bacterial pathogens viz Escherichia coli MTCC-443 Salmonella typhi MTCC-421 Pseudomonas aeruginosa MTCC-2295 Vibrio cholera MTCC-459 and Staphylococcus aureus MTCC-3160 using the standard well diffusion method The results confirmed a positive test against most of the pathogens used Maximum antimicrobial effect against Vibrio cholera of 3 8 mm in diameter is reported The present investigation has revealed that positive progresses in the fish T biaculeatus muscle extracts against human pathogens 10