TITLE:
Effect of Antimicrobial Peptides and Chemicals Produced by Animals on Aspergillus fumigatus
AUTHORS:
AlBaraa Akram, Glen McCann
KEYWORDS:
Antimicrobials, Aspergillus fumigatus, Antimicrobial Peptides
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Bioscience and Biotechnology,
Vol.12 No.6,
June
30,
2021
ABSTRACT: The problem of
multidrug-resistant pathogens as bacteria, fungi and yeast in addition to the
restriction of using antibiotics as growth promoting substances in food has attracted the attention to looking for alternative sources instead of
conventional antibiotics like natural products which have antimicrobial
activity. Much interests and researches have been focused on using natural
antimicrobial peptides and chemicals extracted from animal secretions and some
insect’s venoms as they exhibit antimicrobial activity against pathogens with
lower resistance and higher synergistic effects if they were given in
combination with blends of them. In this paper, some antimicrobial chemicals
extracted from giraffes are shown in addition to their activity against Aspergillus fumigatus species using
optical density analysis technique then their Minimum Inhibitory Concentrations
(MIC) will be determined as well as ICs 50 to measure the potency to inhibit a
biological function using programmes like Gene5, graph pad prism as well as
testing antimicrobial activity of some chemicals which are provided in animal
secretions.