A research team at the College of Veterinary Medicine, consisting of Dr. Wasfi Abboud Al-Masoudi, Dr. Bassam Yassin Khudair, and PhD student Safanah Kazem Jassim, obtained a patent for preparing a new compound of the type of beta-lactam derived from benzothiazole and the active substance in black pepper (pipronal) with biological effectiveness as an antibiotic, which is prepared for the first time.
The patent included the preparation of a new compound containing the active group in antibiotics known as beta-lactam. The new compound was diagnosed using spectroscopic methods and accurate elemental analysis. The analyzes proved the validity of the chemical composition of the new compound, and the anti-activity of a number of bacterial isolates was tested by PCR technique for positive and negative bacteria for Gram stain and the results proved the high effectiveness of the compound against pathogenic microbes.
Thus, the compound is considered to have a wide range as an antibiotic for different types of microbes. It is also considered to have a promising potential to become an effective drug after completing pharmacological studies on it.
