Synergistic antimicrobial activities of essential oil vapours against Penicillium corylophilum on a laboratory medium and beef jerky.

This study was done to determine the antifungal activities of essential oil (EO) vapours of 97 plants against Penicillium corylophilum and to test combinations of EO vapours for synergistic antifungal effects. Among 97 commercially available EOs extracted from plant parts, garlic, cinnamon bark, may chang (mountain pepper), citronella, thyme thymol, oregano, spearmint, and thyme linalool EO vapours exhibited relatively strong antifungal activities. The minimal inhibitory concentrations of these EO vapours were 0.