The Investigation On How Applying An Electric Field For 60 Minutes Affects The Growth Of Specific Bacterial Species

• Abbas Dareb Shaban

  Department of Biology, College of Education_Qurna, University of Basrah

• Huda Hassan Aziz

  Department of Biology, College of Education_Qurna, University of Basrah

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1172-5261

• Hameed A. Hamadi

  Department of Biology, College of Education_Qurna, University of Basrah

  https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3111-8210

• Batool Sajad Hamid

  https://orcid.org/0009-0007-9283-2590

We discovered that some of them suffered damage to their walls or membranes as a result of the electric field lines flowing through them. Depending on the variation in intensity, bacteria are affected by the field, whether it is positive at most or negative to a small extent, as this laboratory experiment demonstrated. Despite the strength of their walls, we discovered that pathogenic bacteria are affected by an electric current of 60 amps, which caused a modest change in their growth or, more precisely, made them growth-inhibiting in contrast to their pure state.

 Highlights:

1. Electric fields damage bacterial walls/membranes based on intensity variation.
2. Pathogenic bacteria affected by 60-amp current, inhibiting growth.
3. Growth differs from pure state due to electric exposure.

Keywords: electric field, bacterial growth, nutrient agar, Staphylococcus aureus