THE EFFECT OF SOME NATURAL PRODUCTS ON POTENTIALLY PATHOGENIC BACTERIA ON HOSPITAL TEXTILES

Bolnišnične okužbe so zaplet hospitalizacije in danes predstavljajo v zdravstvu velik problem. Pogostost le-teh je eden izmed kazalcev kakovosti dela v bolnišnici. Povzročitelji bolnišničnih okužb so mikroorganizmi, najpogosteje na antibiotike odporne bakterije. Včasih gre samo za kolonizacijo potencialno patogenih bakterij, ki lahko kasneje preide v okužbo in sekundarno bolezen. V nalogi smo se osredotočili na bakterije, prisotne v bolnišnicah oziroma na bolnišničnih tekstilijah. Z antibiogrami smo ugotavljali, kako na bakterije delujejo različni naravni proizvodi. Noben proizvod bakterij popolnoma ne uniči, saj smo ugotovili, da so nekatere testirane bakterije odporne oziroma slabo občutljive na določene naravne proizvode.Nosocomial infections are hospital acquired infections that occur as a result of treatment in a hospital or a healthcare service unit, but secondary to the patient\u27s original condition and are alarming in the 21st century. Infectious agents are microorganisms, most often antibiotic resistant potentially pathogenic bacteria.. Microorganisms are transmitted in hospitals by several routes, and the same microorganism may be transmitted by more than one route. One of the routes mostly neglected is transmission via hospital textiles. Therefore the main objective of the present work was to determine whether some naturally occuring products with claimed antimicrobial activity have antibacterial action on the most common bacteria found in hospital textiles. The results of antibiograms clearly showed that selected natural products did not kill bacteria as most of the potentially pathogenic bacteria were resistant or weakly sensitive to these products as compared to the conventional antibiotics