Backgrounds and aims: Candida albicans is more prevalent between Candida species which can cause candidal infection. Various studies have shown drug resistance among the C. albicans isolates, so it is now necessary to discover replacement treatments for the Candida infection. The aim of this study is comparison the effects of different Essential oils (EOs) against azoles-resistant and azoles-su...

Environmental pollution from pesticides is an important issue that attracts wide spread public concern. Among these organophosphate pesticides are routinely used in agriculture. Chloropyrifos toxicity has been largely associated with irreversible inhibition of acetyl-cholinesterase resulting in accumulation of acetylcholine in the cholinergic receptors. Organochlorine insecticides, caused degen...

Background: Bacillus cereus is a spore-forming food-borne pathogen often associated with food products such as meat, vegetables, soup, rice, and milk and other dairy products. 1 - 20 % of total outbreaks of food intoxication in the world are caused by Bacillus cereus. There is an increasing interest in the use of plant-derived antimicrobial compounds as natural preservatives for foods. Such as ...

  Background : Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of important opportunistic pathogen, that cases serious infections . It produces many virulence factors, and this bacterium usually is resistance against antimicrobial agents.   Objective :The aim of this study was evaluate the effects of sub-MICs of essential oils of Mentha spicata and Cumminum cyminum on alginate production, biofilm formation, swim...

Seeds of cumin (Cuminum cyminum L.) are widely used as a spice for their distinctive aroma. C. have been in traditional medicine to treat variety diseases. Literature presents ample evidence biomedical activities which is attributed its bioactive secondary metabolites - terpenes, phenols, and flavonoids. Besides, health effects seeds experimentally validated through phytochemical analysis depic...

The goals of this study were to evaluate the effectiveness of Cuminum cyminum, Ziziphora clinopodioides and Nigella sativa essential oils to inhibit the growth of Aspergillus fumigatus and A. flavus and to evoke ultrastructural changes. The fungi were cultured into RPMI 1640 media in the presence of oils at concentrations of 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.5, 1.25, 1, 0.75 and 0.5 mg/ml in broth microdilut...

The commonly used seed spice Cumin (Cuminum cyminum Linn.) contains 3-4% volatile oil and about 15% fixed oil. Conventional grinding of cumin is associated with problems of temperature rise, caking, clogging of sieves and deterioration of quality due to loss of volatiles. Shortcomings of the conventional size reduction were obviated by flaking and the effect of flaking on the yield and quality ...