0973-7510 Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology 2581-690X DR. M.N. Khan 10.22207/JPAM.12.2.28 Evaluation of Antimicrobial Activity of Different Aquatic Extracts Against Bacterial Isolates from UTI in Babylon Province, Iraq Ghani Chabuck Zainab Adil Hamid Hadi Baraa Kadhim Hindi Nada Khazal Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Babylon, Babylon Province, Iraq. PhD. Medical Microbiology/University of Babylon, Iraq, Head of basic and medical science\ Nursing college\ Babylon University, Iraq. 30 06 2018 12 2 693 700 Copyright © 2018 The Author(s) 2018 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted use, sharing, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

There are incrementsto the need ofthe usage of new non-chemical medicines, pharmaceuticalsand health products. Plantsare traditionallyused as medicine over the world for their pharmacological values. They effectively used as anti-fungal,antiviral,anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory, anti-diabetic, anti-oxidant anti-ulcer, andantitussive. Thisstudy aimsto investigate the effects of plant extracts (Glycyrrhiza glabra, Cuminum cyminum, Zingiber officinale,Origanum majorana and Petroselinum crispum) against different types of grampositive and negative bacterial isolates. Antimicrobial activity of tested aqueous extracts by well-diffusion methodagainst various bacterial isolates were done, to estimate their antibacterial activity. Results showed that the aquatic extracts of different plants produce a good antibacterial effects when compared with the synthetic antibiotic ciprofloxacin. As all bacterial isolates in this study where sensitive to these extracts with variable ranges of inhibition zones ranging from 18-32mm in diameter. Thus we can concluded that the aquatic extracts of Glycyrrhiza glabra, Cuminum cyminum, Zingiber officinale,Origanum majorana and Petroselinum crispum can be beneficial as treatment of UTI-causing bacteria.

Keywords Glycyrrhiza glabra Cuminum cyminum Zingiber officinale Origanum majorana Petroselinum crispum