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- Title
Effect of Indian Honeys on Various Clinical Isolates.
- Authors
Deshpande, Sunita; Kambli, Kishori; Gawde, Bhakti; Savak, Jasmina
- Abstract
INTRODUCTION & BACKGROUND In Ayurveda, honey is considered as the nectar of life. It is a sweet natural liquid gathered by honeybees from nectar or other secretions of plants, which they transform by addition of enzymes and evaporation of water. Many extensive studies on different types of honeys have been carried out in various parts of the world and have reported its medicinal uses and properties. Manuka honey from New Zealand is one of the most extensively studied honeys for its medicinal uses and antibacterial activity. In India, use of honey in medicine has been known since ancient times, but very few documented research reports are available. Indian honeys are classified according to their floral source, type of honeybee, season and location. However, little account has been taken of the very large variation that exists in the antibacterial potency of these different types of honeys. OBJECTIVES, MATERIALS & METHODS Hence, in the present study a total 400 clinical isolates of four types of bacterial spp. (E. coli, S. aureus, P. aeruginosa and Klebsiella spp.) were obtained from various clinical samples from Dept. of Microbiology, T. N. M. C & B. Y. L. Nair Ch. Hosp., Mumbai, Maharashtra, India during the period of Feb. 2005 to Jan. 2006. These clinical isolates were further grouped according to their sensitivity patterns to standard antibiotics. The in vitro antibacterial effect of six Indian honeys was then tested against these 400 clinical isolates along with standard ATCC strains of E. coli, S. aureus and P. aeruginosa. All Indian honey samples were compared with Manuka honey-UMF-16 from New Zealand for their physicochemical properties, enzyme levels and antibacterial activity. RESULTS & CONCLUSIONS It was found that Indian unifloral honey samples were more or less at par with Manuka honey. Detailed results will be presented.
- Subjects
INDIA; NETHERLANDS; HONEY; ESCHERICHIA coli; PSEUDOMONAS aeruginosa; KLEBSIELLA; ANTIBIOTICS; ENZYMES
- Publication
Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2007, Vol 14, Issue 1, p107
- ISSN
1394-195X
- Publication type
Article