The College of Education for Pure Sciences Discusses a Doctoral Dissertation on the Molecular Diagnosis of Some Dermatophytes and Investigates the Antifungal Effect of some Plant Extracts
The College of Education for Pure Sciences Discusses a Doctoral Dissertation on the Molecular Diagnosis of Some Dermatophytes and Investigates the Antifungal Effect of some Plant Extracts
The College of Education for Pure Sciences discusses a doctoral dissertation on the molecular diagnosis of some dermatophytes and investigates the antifungal effect of some plant extracts.
The Department of Life Sciences at the College of Education for Pure Sciences, University of Karbala, discussed a doctoral dissertation entitled “Molecular Diagnosis of Some Dermatophytes and Investigating the Antifungal Effect of Some Plant Extracts and Beetroot (Beta vulgaris) Nano-Extract on Them.”
The dissertation was presented by student Marwa Hussein Abdul-Sada, under the supervision of Professor Dr. Ban Taha Mohammed (first supervisor) and Dr. Adnan Abdul-Jalil Lahouf (second supervisor).
The study aimed to diagnose and characterize some dermatophytes at the molecular level, evaluate the therapeutic efficacy of selected plant extracts, compare them with commonly used antifungal agents, and compare their effect with zinc oxide nanoparticles prepared using the green method.
The study concluded that females were more frequently affected by fungal skin infections than males, with tinea corporis being the most common clinical condition, accounting for 23.01% of cases in females and 14.28% in males. The study also found that the 21-30 age group was the most susceptible to tinea, with 40 samples analyzed.
The study recommended further research using beetroot extract to treat microbial and parasitic infections in laboratory animals. It also recommended studies using various plant extracts to inhibit the growth of fungi on dermatophytes, as well as immunological and histological studies of patients with fungal skin infections.
