ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF HONEYArti Zende, Shraddha Gaonkar, Shilpa Ruikar and Girish PathadeAbstract The present study is aimed at determination of antimicrobial activity of honey. Honey is an effective remedy for healing of wounds as it shows antibacterial and antifungal activity. To study the antimicrobial activity of honey, four types of samples were collected from different sources and labelled as S1, S2, S3, S4. These samples were used to study the antimicrobial activity against laboratory cultures of known pathogens such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Proteus vulgaris, Candida albicans, Escherichia coli, Shigella spp., Bacillus subtilis, Micrococcus luteus, Micrococcus roseous and Bacillus megaterium. Antimicrobial activity of honey samples was studied by using ditch test method and MIC was determined by agar cup diffusion method. All results were recorded and it was found that S1 and S3 honey samples showed maximum antibacterial activity even at 6 times dilutions. |