Clinical Microbiology: Open Access

Effect of temperature and time on the antifungal activity of camel urine

3^rd International Conference on Clinical Microbiology & Microbial Genomics

September 24-26, 2014 Valencia Convention Centre, Spain

Awatif Al-Judaibi

Accepted Abstracts: Clin Microbial

Abstract:

Camel urine, considered a ?miraculous? drug used in Prophetic Medicine, since the pre-Islamic era camel milk and urine were used as drinking medicine for different health problems. In addition, camel urine was used as treatment for women's hair in the folk-medicine, and it has proven to be effective as an antimicrobial agent, and may not have side effects for humans. Furthermore, camel urine may be resistant to factors such as high temperatures and an extensive waiting period in laboratory conditions, which can reduce the effectiveness of antibiotics. The aim of our study was to examine the effectiveness of camel urine as an antifungal agent following exposure to high temperatures and long time periods in laboratory conditions. After maintaining camel urine in natural laboratory conditions for 6 weeks at temperatures of up to 100oC, we tested camel urine on the fungi Aspergillus niger and Fusarium oxysporum, and on the yeast Candida albicans. We then measured the dry weight of each microorganism, and determined their minimum inhibitory and fungicidal concentrations. Our results showed that after maintaining for 6 weeks, camel urine did not lose its antifungal activity; dry weights following treatment were decreased 100% of the dry weight prior to treatment for Aspergillus niger and Candida albicans, and 53.33% for Fusarium oxysporum. Our study demonstrates that camel urine is a highly effective and resilient antifungal agent for treating human and plant fungal diseases.

Biography :

Awatif Al-Judaibi has a position of demonstrator then lecturer and she completed her PhD at the age of 32 years from Girls College. After that, she has a position of assistant professor in the same college, then in King Abdulaziz University. She is the supervisor of Microbiology section, Biology department at KAU. She has published more than 17 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as a reviewer at number of journals. She is a member in several national and international scientific societies; ASM, IDSA, DSM, ACS, OWSD, AAAS.