3.4.1. Micro-Organisms

The essential oil was tested against three skin pathogenic bacterial strains obtained from the Medical Bioscience Department at the University of the Western Cape. These were one gram-positive strain, wild-type (WT) *S. aureus,* and two gram-negative strains, wild-type (WT) *E. coli* and wild-type (WT) *P. aeruginosa*.
