Antioxidant and antimicrobial activities of Lycium shawii fruits extract.

Crude extracts from the fruit of Lycium shawii, a plant collected from the south of Tunisia, were screened for their in vitro antioxidant, antimicrobial and antifungal activities. The dried fruits were extracted with EtOH and an aqueous suspension of the obtained EtOH extract was partitioned successively with CHCl3, CH2Cl2, EtOAc and n-BuOH, leaving residual water extract. Total phenolic content of extracts from these fruits were also determined.