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Hence, the present study was undertaken to screen the phytochemical constituents and evaluate the antibacterial and antioxidant activity of\n                    <jats:italic>V. sinaiticum<\/jats:italic>\n                    chloroform and methanol leaf extracts against two Gram\u2010positive bacteria (\n                    <jats:italic>Staphylococcus aureus<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic>Streptococcus pneumoniae<\/jats:italic>\n                    ) and two Gram\u2010negative bacterial strains (\n                    <jats:italic>Klebsiella pneumoniae<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic>Escherichia coli<\/jats:italic>\n                    ) by the agar disc well diffusion method. The study revealed the presence of phenols, flavonoids, steroids, saponins, terpenoids, alkaloids, and tannins. Thus, the present investigation was undertaken to estimate total phenols and flavonoids in chloroform and methanol extracts of\n                    <jats:italic>V. sinaiticum<\/jats:italic>\n                    leaves. In vitro antioxidant activity was also evaluated in the methanol and chloroform extracts using DPPH and FRAP assays. The DPPH assay showed that standard IC\n                    <jats:sub>50<\/jats:sub>\n                    for ascorbic acid (AA) was 23.79\u2009\u03bcg\/mL, whereas for methanol extract the IC\n                    <jats:sub>50<\/jats:sub>\n                    value was 29.88\u2009\u03bcg\/mL and 86.38\u2009\u03bcg\/mL for chloroform extract, while the FRAP assay showed standard IC\n                    <jats:sub>50<\/jats:sub>\n                    value for AA as 46.2\u2009\u03bcg\/mL, 80.3\u2009\u00b5g\/mL for methanol extract and 201.2\u2009\u00b5g\/mL for chloroform extract with\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    values\u2009&lt;\u20090.05, which indicates that methanol extract exhibits higher antioxidant activity than chloroform crude extract. The methanolic extracts of\n                    <jats:italic>V. sinaiticum<\/jats:italic>\n                    leaves showed moderate amounts of total phenolic and flavonoid contents, 7.81\u2009\u00b1\u20090.14 mg GAE\/g (milligrams of gallic acid equivalent) and 14.20\u2009\u00b1\u20090.98 mg QE\/g of dried crude, respectively. Using the agar well diffusion method, the two extracts were evaluated against Gram\u2010positive (\n                    <jats:italic>S. aureus<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic>S. pneumonia<\/jats:italic>\n                    ) and Gram\u2010negative (\n                    <jats:italic>Salmonella typhi<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic>E. coli<\/jats:italic>\n                    ) bacterial strains. The leaf extract displayed a greater impact on both Gram\u2010positive bacterial strains and Gram\u2010negative bacterial strains. 21.7\u2009\u00b1\u20090.6 against\n                    <jats:italic>E. coli<\/jats:italic>\n                    at concentrations of 100 and 50\u2009\u03bcg\/mL and 19.7\u2009\u00b1\u20090.6 against\n                    <jats:italic>S. typhi<\/jats:italic>\n                    compared to positive control ciprofloxacin 23.6\u2009\u00b1\u20090.4 and 28.6\u2009\u00b1\u20090.6, respectively. The minimum inhibitory concentration assay was determined using the concentrations of 100\u2009mg\/mL, 50\u2009mg\/mL, 25\u2009mg\/mL, and 12.5\u2009mg\/mL by the agar well diffusion method. All extracts had shown a significant antibacterial activity (\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    value &lt; 0.05) within the average inhibition zone ranging from 10.2\u2009\u00b1\u20091.3 to 21.7\u2009\u00b1\u20090.6.\n                    <jats:italic>V. sinaiticum<\/jats:italic>\n                    leaves showed strong antibacterial activities against\n                    <jats:italic>S. aureus<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>S. pneumonia<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>E. coli<\/jats:italic>\n                    , and\n                    <jats:italic>S. typhi<\/jats:italic>\n                    . Therefore, it is evident from this study that the highest therapeutic efficacy possessing majority of secondary metabolite classes of compounds in the leaf extract of\n                    <jats:italic>V. sinaiticum<\/jats:italic>\n                    , which can be quantified for application in the pharmaceutical industry. Especially, flavonoids and tannins were strongly detected. 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