ABSTRACT
Twelve
medicated soaps; Crusader, Septol, Carat, 14days, Funbact, Lifebouy, Safeguard,
Tetmosol, TCP, Dettol, Delta and Antigal was investigated for their
antibacterial activities. The results revealed that Crusader medicated soap
exhibited a high level of antibacterial activity, resulting in greater zones'
inhibition,25mm against Staphylococcus aureus,20mm against Escherichia coli and
15mm against Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Antigal exhibited the, least zone of
inhibition. Staphylococcus aureus 9mm, Escherichia coli 5mm and was not active
against Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Significant differences (p<0.05) were
observed on the concentrations used. Identification of the bacterial strains
was done by standard microbiological techniques, which include Gram staining
and biochemical testing. Determination of minimal inhibitory concentration and
minimum bactericidal activity of the strains ยข were performed by the disc-agar
diffusion method. It was found that Gram positive Staphylococcus aureus was
very sensitive to the antibacterial soaps used, while Gram negative Escherichia
coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa showed resistance to some of the soaps. It is
quite possible that antibacterial soaps have the antibacterial agents that can
either kill or inhibit the bacterial cells. It might be possible that some
bacterial strains become resistant which leads to their survival even at high
concentrations of soaps. The 'most resistant bacterium to all the soaps was
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
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