“…However, there are considerable discrepancies in the antimicrobial assay results reported. Whereas some authors have found the plant to be completely devoid of antimicrobial activity (McGaw et al, 2000;Bamuamba et al, 2008;Nyila et al, 2012), others have observed significant antimicrobial properties in various Tulbaghia extracts (Motsei et al, 2003;Lindsey and Van Staden, 2004;Thamburan et al, 2006;Nteso and Pretorius, 2006a,b;Buwa and Afolayan, 2009;Belewa et al, 2011;Somai and Belewa, 2011;Jäger and Stafford, 2012;Soyingbe et al, 2013).…”