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Abstract
The current study included the collection of (300) samples from (150) people from patients visiting Balad General Hospital and some private clinics in Balad District - Salah Al-Din Governorate, a sample was taken from both the right and left eyes using special dry and sterile cotton swabs that can be disposed of later, for the period ranging from November 2022 to January 2023, (235) positive samples for bacterial growth were obtained, constituting 78.3% of the total samples collected, positive growth specimens have been diagnosed depending on their morphological, farming and biochemical properties, the diagnosis of a number of them was confirmed using the Vitek2 system. The results showed obtaining (140) isolates out of a total of (235) positive samples for Gram stain, with a percentage of 59.6%, it included aureus staphylococcus by 27.65%, Staphylococcus epidermidis by 14.89%, Bacillus by 6.36%, Streptococcus viridans by 4.25% and Diphtheria by 6.38%, while the negative isolates of Gram stain were (95) isolates with a percentage of 40.4% of the total isolates and included Psedomonas auroginosa by 14.89%, klebsilla bacteria by 8.51%, E-Coli bacteria by 10.63% and Nisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria by 6.38%. The results also showed that the eyeliner used in the study (Al-Athmad) gave a modest inhibitory activity compared to the ethanolic alcoholic extract against the bacterial species under study, the highest average inhibitory diameter was (15) mm for N. gonorrhoeae and S. viridans at concentration (200) mg/ml.