College of Science

 Actinomycetes produce a wide range of secondary metabolites and more than 70% of the naturally derived antibiotics that are currently in clinical use are derived from soil Actinomycetes and increasing of the pathogens resistant against antimicrobial agents becomes a health problems, so the current study was aimed to isolation of local Streptomyces spp. that is capable of producing secondary metabolite and investigate their biological antimicrobial and anticancer activities.

      Breast cancer is the most common cancer of women worldwide, Accounting for 25% of all cancers, with an estimated 1.57 million new cases in 2016. n Iraq,According to the latest Iraqi Cancer Registry, breast cancer is the most common malignancy among the Iraqi population THAT constitutes about one fourth of the registered cancer cases and it is the leading cause of death among the Iraqi population.

 In this study, a total of 46 clinical samples were collected for the isolation of P .aeruginosa, 14 samples taken from wounds, 20 samples from burns and 12 samples from ear infections. All samples were collected from Al-yarmouk hospital. Among these samples, a total of 29 bacterial isolates were successfully cultured .Six of them were subjected to the identification according to their morphological,