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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
The antimicrobial spectrum of honey and its clinical significance
Infection, Volume 20, No. 4, Year 1992
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The antimicrobial spectrum of honey was investigated by placing two drops into each of the wells made on culture media on which pure cultures of various organisms obtained from surgical specimens were grown. The organisms were grown under both aerobic and anaerobic environments. Fungal cultures of common fungi causing surgical infections or wound contaminations were mixed with 100%, 50% and 20% unprocessed honey. Growth inhibition was complete in the media containing 100%, partial in media containing 50% and no inhibition was produced by 20% honey. Unprocessed honey inhibited most of the fungi and bacteria causing wound infection and surgical infection except Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Clostridium oedematiens. Apart from Streptococcus pyogenes which is only moderately inhibited, golden syrup, a sugar syrup with similar physical properties as honey, did not inhibit any of the bacteria or fungi tested, demonstrating that honey is superior to any hypertonic sugar solution in antimicrobial activity. Honey is thus an ideal topical wound dressing agent in surgical infections, burns and wound infections. © 1992 MMV Medizin Verlag GmbH München.
Authors & Co-Authors
Efem, Spencer E.E.
Nigeria, Calabar
University of Calabar College of Medical Sciences
Iwara, C. I.
Nigeria, Calabar
University of Calabar College of Medical Sciences
Statistics
Citations: 133
Authors: 2
Affiliations: 1
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1007/BF02033065
ISSN:
03008126
e-ISSN:
14390973
Research Areas
Health System And Policy
Violence And Injury