Sawsan Mohammed Abdullah Surjee
Biology Department, College of Education/Scientific Departments, University of Salahaddin, Erbil, Iraq.
Luma Abdal Hady Zwain
Biology Department, College of Education for Pure Science Ibn-Al-Haitham, University of Baghdad, Iraq
Download PDFThe antibacterial effect of ethanolic and aqueous extracts of Zea mays L and urtica dioica L, was investigated on bacteria were obtaind from human Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) from Hawlery Ferkary Hospital in Erbil City- Iraq, by using the well diffusion technique .A 120 isolates bacteria isolated from 180 UTA patient, isolates were identified as E.coli, Staph. spp, Staph. albus, Staph. capitis, Staph epidermis, Staph. aureus, Pseudo. spp., Pesudo. lutela, Pseudo. aeruginosa, Proteus. spp., P. mirabilis, Morganella, Morganii, Klebsiella spp., K. Pneumonia, K. oxytoca, Micrococcus and Citrobacter frenudii following different morphological, physiological and biochemical test. Antibiotic sensitivity of 17 commerical antibiotic discs AK,AMC, AMP, AT, ATM, AZM, CAZ, CD, CEP, CFM , CIP, COT, CRO, GM, IPM, MEM and NA was screened by disc diffusion assay , It was observed that the extracts of both plant had an inhibitory effect on the bacteria under study, except Pesudo. lutela to extracts of Zea mays L. and Pesudo. lutela, K. Pneumonia and K. oxytoca to extracts of Urtica dioica L. The inhibitory concentration of of Zea mays L. extracts was 75% and 100% and Urtica dioica L. extracts was 50%, 75% and 100%. The antibacterial activity of extracts of U. dioica showed the best action as inhibitor against test bacteria than the extracts of zea mays. The result showed there is antibacterial activity of alcohol extract of U. dioica higher sensitivity against a number of bacteria compared with standard antibiotics
Keywords: Antibacterial ; patient ; Pneumonia ; isolates
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