Dhafar Al-ugaili

Dhafar Al-ugaili
Al-Nahrain University · Department of molecular and medical biotechnology

PhD

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Treatment with herbal drugs is considered one of the oldest and safest methods for treating various diseases. Mentha arvensis is a medicinal plant used worldwide in the pharmaceutical industry for its antibacterial, anticancer, antiallergic, and anti-inflammatory properties. In the present study, the antibacterial activity of the methanolic extract...
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Streptococcus mutans is one of the major cariogenic microbial flora. In an attempt to determine the mutagenic effect of diode laser on the viability and antibiotic sensitivity of this bacteria; A total of 30 samples were collected from dental caries. The isolates were identified using by conventional identification methods and confirmed using VITEK...
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This study was designed to shed light on the issue of pathogenic bacteria resistance to antibiotic, and to overcome it by taking the advantages of nanotechnology. A hundred and twenty urine samples were collected from patients of different ages and of both genders who showed symptoms of urinary tract infections, from three hospitals in Baghdad. Cef...
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Staphylococcus aureus is a major hospital and community pathogen having the aptitude to cause a wide variety of infections in human. The biofilm production is an important phenomenon by bacteria such as S. aureus that contribute to the multiple drug resistance. Moreover, biofilm formation by multidrug-resistant S. aureus causes evading from immune...
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Helicobacter pylori a Gram-negative spiral-shaped bacterium that affects up to 50% of the population worldwide. It has been considered one of the main risk factors that cause acute and chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer disease, gastric carcinoma, and low grade gastric mucosa associated lymphoid tissue lymphomas. This study aimed to design a rapid dia...
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The improper use of antibiotics is a global issue that leads to the emergence of multidrug-resistant microbes that cause a wide range of chronic and acute infections. Among these microbes, the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus represents a dangerous challenge to public health as it is responsible for life-threatening infections ranging from soft tissu...
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Tonsillitis which is commonly referred to a strep throat is caused by group A β-hemolytic streptococci (GABHS) or Streptococcus pyogenes. The bacteria is consider as one of the major human-specific bacterial pathogen and one of its virulence factors is the streptokinase; for this reason, 100 tonsillitis swabs were taken from Iraqi children sufferin...
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In order to achieve phytoremediation during agricultural production, it is essential to identify high genotypes yield that is able of accumulating many types of heavy metals not in the edible parts which have significant nutritional value but in the non-edible parts. This study conducted to estimate the heavy metal ATPases 5 (HMA5), Phytochelatins...
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Urinary tract infection is the most common community and hospital acquired bacterial infection in persons of human characterized by a high rate of treatment failure and recurrence of infection. UropathogenicE. coli(UPEC)was the main pathogen isolated from urine of patients suffering from UTIs. Increasing resistance to several commonly prescribed an...
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Urinary tract infection is the most common community and hospital acquired bacterial infection in persons of human characterized by a high rate of treatment failure and recurrence of infection. UropathogenicE. coli(UPEC)was the main pathogen isolated from urine of patients suffering from UTIs. Increasing resistance to several commonly prescribed an...
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Benign overgrowth of prostatic tissue represents the most frequent urological diseases in aging men. Vitamin D plays an important role in the regulation of the growth and differentiation of diverse cell types through the cell's specific receptor. The interaction of vitamin-D with VDR is thought to affect the development of BPH. This study was desig...
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The date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is considered the most important source of food for humans in both arid and semiarid regions. The present work aimed to study the antibacterial effect of date palm pits crude extracts (aqueous and alcoholic) alone and in combination (synergistic) with the antibiotics that some pathogenic bacterial species (sta...
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Extraction of Amygdalin from apple seeds by alcoholic extraction procedure were done and applied a high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) procedure for quantification of it to investigate extraction efficiency and (16) bacterial isolates (4 isolates of Staphylococcus aureus, 4 isolates of Escherichia coli , 4 isolates of Pseudomonas aerugin...
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This study was carried out to evaluate the enhanced effect of ZnO nanoparticles and a crude ethanolic extract of olive leaves upon the antibacterial activity of oxacillin against oxacillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (ORSA) isolate from hospital environment. A positive and induced effect for ZnO nanoparticle was detected upon the antibacterial...

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