20. Determination the Antibacterial Activity of Different Soil Samples in Erbil City
Mohammed Omar Abdullah
ABSTRACT
Objective: Antimicrobial drugs have become limited useful against nowadays pathogens; this was because of highly uptake and consumption of previously drugs which leads to gain the resistance potential by Pathogenic microbes generally and bacterial pathogens specifically. Aim of this study is testing antibacterial capability of soil extracts.
Study Design: Standard antibacterial testing procedure
Place and Duration of Study: This study was conducted at the Iraq, Erbil, Sami-Abdul Rahman Park from October 2023 to December 2023.
Methods: We obtained the antimicrobial effect directly from soil extract and three soil samples from: the indoor plant roots, the random plant root and the grass soil, and mix them with 9 ml of Distilled water, and we used Ciprofloxacin (CIP) as positive control, then they have been checked for their antibacterial activity by well diffusion methods in order to get the inhibition zones which indicate their antibacterial activity. Four standard strains of bacterial species were used in this study, which were K. pneumonia (ATCC 13883), P. mirabilis (ATCC 14153), E. faecalis (ATCC 29212) and S. pneumoniae (ATCC 6303).
Results: Only the random plant root soil sample has slightly effect against K. Pneumoniae and they didn’t have effects on the rest of bacterial strains.
Conclusion: Only random tree roots soil has effect on K. pneumoniae which was (4 mm) of inhibition zone and they didn’t have effect on the rest of bacterial strains.
Key Words: Soil, Antibacterial, Well, diffusion method
Citation of article: Abdullah MO. Determination the Antibacterial Activity of Different Soil Samples in Erbil City. Med Forum 2024;35(2):90-92. doi:10.60110/medforum.350220.