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In this study, crude and purified plasma extracted from the Siamese crocodile were examined for antibacterial activity against clinically isolated, human pathogenic bacterial strains and the related reference strains.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>Crude plasma was prepared from whole blood of the Siamese crocodile by differential sedimentation. The crude plasma was examined for antibacterial activity by the liquid growth inhibition assay. The scanning electron microscopy was performed to confirm the effect of crude crocodile plasma on the cells of <jats:italic>Salmonella typhi<\/jats:italic> ATCC 11778. Effect of crude crocodile plasma on cell viability was tested by MTT assay. In addition, the plasma was purified by anion exchange column chromatography with DEAE-Toyopearl 650 M and the purified plasma was tested for antibacterial activity.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>Crude plasma was prepared from whole blood of the Siamese crocodile and exhibited substantial antibacterial activities of more than 40% growth inhibition against the six reference strains of <jats:italic>Staphylococcus aureus<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Salmonella typhi<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Escherichia coli<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Vibrio cholerae<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Pseudomonas aeruginosa<\/jats:italic>, and <jats:italic>Staphylococcus epidermidis<\/jats:italic>, and the four clinical isolates of <jats:italic>Staphylococcus epidermidis<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Pseudomonas aeruginosa<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Salmonella typhi<\/jats:italic>, and <jats:italic>Vibrio cholerae<\/jats:italic>. Especially, more than 80% growth inhibition was found in the reference strains of <jats:italic>Salmonella typhi<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Vibrio cholerae<\/jats:italic>, and <jats:italic>Staphylococcus epidermidis<\/jats:italic> and in the clinical isolates of <jats:italic>Salmonella typhi<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>Vibrio cholerae<\/jats:italic>. The effect of the crude plasma on bacterial cells of <jats:italic>Salmonella typhi<\/jats:italic>, a certain antibacterial material probably penetrates progressively into the cytoplasmic space, perturbing and damaging bacterial membranes. The effect of the crude plasma was not toxic by the yellow tetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay using a macrophage-like cell, RAW 264.7. The pooled four fractions, designated as fractions D1-D4, were obtained by column chromatography, and only fraction D1 showed growth inhibition in the reference strains and the clinical, human pathogenic isolates.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>The crude and purified plasma from the Siamese crocodile significantly showed antibacterial activity against pathogenic bacteria and reference strains by damage cell membrane of target bacterial cells. 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