Jasim A. Abdullah,* Amer Ali Hammadi, Russell Hakem, Zahra Hatef and Noor Hussein
Objective: The goal of this study is focused on the effect of crude extract of Cuscuta europaea plant and compared with Amoxicillin drug, and
then we showed these effects on Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli. The analysis shows that the side effect of drug is high on
human. We try to find the alternative antimicrobial to treat the bacterial infection.
This study focuses on two treatments to inhibit the growth of two species of bacteria that are Amoxicillin as drug and Cuscuta eurooaea as
extract until show the activity antimicrobial of these amount on bacteria.
Methods: The current study included Cuscuta europaea as extract and Amoxicillin as drug and two species of the bacteria Staphylococcus
aureus and Escherichia coli. This study has been investigated to show the antimicrobial activity of plant extract and drug on the bacteria.
Results: During this study, the results reveal that the activity of antimicrobial of extract plant was higher than Amoxicillin on Staphylococcus
aureus but the both Amoxicillin and extract did not have any effect on Escherichia coli in each concentration. And we showed the best result
recorded in concentration 20 mg/ml of extract plant when compared with amoxicillin drug.
Conclusion: There are no significant differences between the concentration of plant extract of bacteria, and we showed the plant extract
have a high effect on gram positive bacteria but do not have any effect on gram negative bacteria.
Keywords bacteria, amoxicillin, dodder, antimicrobial activity
