Antibacterial activities of natural Iraqi and commercial honey against Klebsiella pneumoniae

Abstract EN

This study was to compare the antibacterial activity of two types of localy natural honey ( citrus flowers honey, eucalyptus honey) and two types of the commercial honey (sinbola honey and shafi honey) against Klebsiella pneumonia were evaluated, and testing the effect of their in increasing the efficiency of antibiotics Ampicillin / sulbactum (SAM) 20μg, Amikacine (AK) 30μg, Augmenten (AUG) 30μg, Chloramphenicol (C) 30μg ,Gentamicin (GM) 10μg in inhibiting K.

pneumoniae.

The results indicated that the natural honey significantly superiority on commercial honey in inhibiting growth for K.

pneumoniae, the diameter of inhibition zone of citrus flowers honey and eucalyptus honey was 23 , 19 mm respectively while for sinbola and shafi honey were 8 and 9 mm respectively.

Also the results showed that the Citrus Flowers honey exceeded significantly on eucalyptus honey , the inhibition diameters of their were 23 mm and 19 mm respectively.

The results indicated that the inhibitory effect of natural honey was closely related to antibiotics, and it gave a positive result when compared to the standard tables of the inhibition of antibiotics.

The combination of natural and commercial honey with antibiotics increased the efficiency of antimicrobial activity of antibiotics by increasing the diameters of bacterial growth inhibition if compared with the diameters given by antibiotics.