Table 1. Antibacterial activity of honey against bacteria causing life-threatening infection to humans.

Bacterial strain	Clinical importance	Authors
Proteus spps.	Septicemia, urinary infections, woundinfections	Molan[8]
		Agbagwa and Frank-Peterside[33]
Serratia marcescens	Septicemia, wound infections	Molan[8]
Vibrio cholerae	Cholera	Molan[8]
S. aureus	Community acquired and nosocomial infection	Taormina et al[50]
		Chauhan et al[34]
		Sherlock et al[35]
E. coli	Urinary tract infection, diarrhea, septicemia, wound infections	Chauhan et al[34]
		Sherlock et al[35]
P. aeruginosa	Wound infection, diabetic foot ulcer, Urinary infections	Chauhan et al[34]
		Sherlock et al[35]
		Mullai and Menon[36]
S. maltophilia	Pneumonia, urinary tract infection, blood stream infection, nosocomial infection	Tan et al[9]
A. baumannii	Opportunistic pathogen infects immunocompromised individuals through open wounds, catheters and breathing tubes	Tan et al[9]
A. schubertii	Burn- wound infection	Hassanein et al[38]
H. paraphrohaemlyticus
Micrococcus luteus
Cellulosimicrobium cellulans
Listonella anguillarum
A. baumannii
H. pylori	Chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer, gastric malignancies	Ndip et al[57]
Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi	Enteric fever	Mulu et al[58]
		Chauhan et al[34]
		Molan[8]
Mycobacterium tuberculosis	Tuberculosis	Asadi-Pooya et al[59]