Abstract

In the Yucatan Peninsula there are marine organisms that sustain a sustainable fishing activity, such as the octopus Octopus maya that is the main octopus in Yucatan, and first national place in capture and sale (SAGARPA 2016). The Mayan octopus is endemic to the Yucatan Peninsula, it contains a great diversity of metabolites, which are susceptible to generate the elaboration of various drugs. (Blanco et al. 2007). Octopus maya octopus ink is a fish by-product that has melanin, a substrate that has been attributed to endless properties and applications for humans. Studies using the metabolites contained in the melanin of molluscs have been carried out, in the case of the Mayan octopus, it is tried to establish if any metabolite present in the melanin of the mollusk is susceptible to be used as an antimicrobial agent against some common bacteria in the medium and Hence the possibility of producing a product that serves this purpose. To determine the antimicrobial activity of the octopus melanin of Yucatan octopus, using the bacterium Salmonella typhi ATCC 14028, to produce a natural antimicrobial that combats salmonellosis.

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