Professor Dr. May Talib Flayyih received the BSc, MSc, and PhD in Microbiology, at the Department of Biology, College of Science, University of Baghdad . From 1989 until now she worked at the Department of Biology, College of Science, University of Baghdad.
She has been a Professor of Microbiology - Bacterial Toxins since 2011.
She has been a Representative of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research at the National Bio Risk Management Committee, in Iraq since 2015.
Microbiology /Pathogenic bacteria and Bacterial toxins
Microbial physiology, Clinical Microbiology, Antibiotic, Food and Water Born Disease, Bioseparation, Bacterial Toxins.
She supervised 14 PhD Students and 30 MSc students till now.
Seven isolates were identified as Pseduomonas aeruginosa from clinical samples. Antibiotic sensitivity test were done to determine their sensitivity to number of antibiotics, the results illustrated all that isolates were resistant to most used antibiotics. The ability of Pseduomonas isolates to produce haemolysin, protease and pyocyanin were detected in this study, all isolates had the ability to produce pyocyanin pigment, hemolysis and protease. The antimicrobial activity of the ethanolic extracts of Thuja orientalis and green tea against P.aeruginosa were investigated. The results showed that both these plant extracts have inhibitory effect against Pseduomonas isolates and it was shown that ethanolic extract of green tea was more efficie
... Show MoreAim: To evaluation the effect of Lactobacillus acidophilus on Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) serotype O157:H7 with detection of some virulence factors. Methods: Two hundred and fifty specimens (stool) from children under five years for both sexes were collected from some hospitals. All isolates were diagnosed according to morphological characteristics, biochemical tests. Monoplex pattern of PCR was used also for detection different genes in (7) Escherichia coli )O157:H7 (isolates; include 16SrRNA, eae, lifA, Stx1,Stx2 that encoded for ribosomal RNA, intimin, lymphocyte inhibitory factor, shiga toxins. Three types of probiotics strains were obtained, Lactobacillus fermentum, Lactobacillus plantarum and Lactobacillus acidophilus (A
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