“…Water and alcoholic extracts of date-pits showed anti-microbial activity against Klebsiella pneumonia, Escherichia coli [Mossa et al, 1986], Staphylocaccus aurus, Proteus vulgaris, and Bacillus subtilis [Saddiq & Bawazir, 2010]. Date-pits are most effective in inhibiting the growth of bacteria as compared to antibiotics, mainly due to two reasons: i) differences in resistance of bacteria to anti-tested materials, and ii) the change in membrane permeability of cells, thereby hindering the entry of enzymes or excreted by the change in the chemical composition of the constituent chemical [Mossa et al, 1986;Saddiq & Bawazir, 2010].…”