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\definecolor{GJMediumGrey}{HTML}{6D6E70} \definecolor{GJLightGrey}{HTML}{929497} \renewenvironment{abstract}{% \setlength{\parindent}{0pt}\raggedright \textcolor{GJMediumGrey}{\rule{\textwidth}{2pt}} \vskip16pt \textcolor{GJBlue}{\large\bfseries\abstractname\space} }{% \vskip8pt \textcolor{GJMediumGrey}{\rule{\textwidth}{2pt}} \vskip16pt } \usepackage[absolute,overlay]{textpos} \makeatother \usepackage{lineno} \linenumbers \begin{document} \affil[1]{ } \renewcommand\Authands{ and } \date{\small \em Received: 1 January 1970 Accepted: 1 January 1970 Published: 1 January 1970} \maketitle \begin{abstract} Acne is one of the most common skin pathologies, one of the causes is Propionibacterium acnes, an anaerobic and gram-positive microorganism that lives in the hair follicles of the skin, currently presents resistance to antibiotic based treatments; this research topic has the purpose of evaluating the antibiotic activity of Cannabidiol oil against Propionibacterium acnes, Staphylo-coccus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis and the level of toxicity against Artemia salina.For the methodology, antibiograms were used by the Kirby-Bauer method, where the concen-trations were evaluated: 0,8 %; 0,6 %; 0,4 %; 0,3 % and 0,1 %; Amoxicillin for positive control and Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) for negative control; the percentage of inhibition against Propioni-bacterium acnes and two control bacteria were calculated: Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylo-coccus epidermidis. Once the percentage of inhi-bition was tested, a toxicity study was carried out against Artemia salina to determine its LD50. \end{abstract} \keywords{} \begin{textblock*}{18cm}(1cm,1cm) % {block width} (coords) \textcolor{GJBlue}{\LARGE Global Journals \LaTeX\ JournalKaleidoscope\texttrademark} \end{textblock*} \begin{textblock*}{18cm}(1.4cm,1.5cm) % {block width} (coords) \textcolor{GJBlue}{\footnotesize \\ Artificial Intelligence formulated this projection for compatibility purposes from the original article published at Global Journals. However, this technology is currently in beta. \emph{Therefore, kindly ignore odd layouts, missed formulae, text, tables, or figures.}} \end{textblock*} \begin{textblock*}{10cm}(1.05cm,3cm) {{\textit{CrossRef DOI of original article:}} \underline{}} \end{textblock*}\let\tabcellsep& \par For the methodology, antibiograms were used by the Kirby-Bauer method, where the concentrations were evaluated: 0,8 \%; 0,6 \%; 0,4 \%; 0,3 \% and 0,1 \%; Amoxicillin for positive control and Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) for negative control; the percentage of inhibition against Propionibacterium acnes and two control bacteria were calculated: Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis. Once the percentage of inhi-bition was tested, a toxicity study was carried out against Artemia salina to determine its LD50.\par The Cannabidiol oil obtained from the Ecuadorian company was used as the antibiotic agent to be evaluated, and it was found that at a concentration of 0,8\% it presented a percentage of inhibition of 91,2 \%; 98,7 \% and 93,6 \% against Propionibacterium acnes, Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis, respectively, data that do not present a significant difference against amoxicillin; for the Artemia salina test, a LD50 of 4,8 \% was obtained; taking into account that the commercial oil has a presentation of 1,6 \% (500 mg/30 mL), it results in a relatively innocuous product. Thus concluding that Cannabidiol oil is a very promising antibiotic due to the inhibition percentages presented and low toxicity. \section[{INTRODUCTION}]{INTRODUCTION}\par The use and abuse of antibiotics not only in Ecuador but worldwide, is a fashionable and controversial topic, due to the efforts made by professionals, this is a practice that continues to leave in its wake several serious and irreversible consequences. One of them is the bacterial resistance acquired by microorganisms to antibiotics.\par Several resistances of Propionibacterium acnes have been reported over the years, as is the case of Clindamycin and Erythromycin, which were reported in 1979, and later in 1983 the first resistance to tetracycline was reported \hyperref[b10]{10} .\par It \section[{II. MATERIALS AND METHODS}]{II. MATERIALS AND METHODS}\par Cannabidiol oil was obtained from an Ecuadorian company, in a 500 mg/30mL presentation. The bacterial strain of Propionibacterium acnes ATCC 11827; Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 29213 and Staphylococcus epidermidis ATCC 14990 were obtained from the Cryobank of the Life Sciences Laboratories of the Salesian Polytechnic University. The manual described by \hyperref[b23]{20} was used as a reference and the tubes containing the bacterial beads were thawed, with a punch to perform the striation in triplicate throughout the petri dish.\par The recommendations of \hyperref[b6]{7} were followed to prepare dilutions with oils and dimethyl sulfoxide. Five oil-based dilutions were prepared at concentrations of 0.1 \%; 0.3 \%; 0.4 \%; 0.6 \% and 0,8 \% whose solvent was DMSO; the final volume for each dilutions was 5 mL in every amber bottle.\par A commercial antibiotic (Amoxicillin) was taken as a positive control, which is a betalactam antibiotic used for both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, due to its broad spectrum of bacterial activity \hyperref[b0]{1} . This antibiotic is used for antibiotic testing in the Staphylococcus and Propionibacterium families, because of their sensitivity to its compounds {\ref 8,}\hyperref[b10]{10} .\par P. acnes was incubated in TSB medium under anaerobic conditions at 35 °C for 16 hours, for S. aureus and S. epidermidis were incubated in TSB medium at 37 °C in an incubator.\par After the established time passed. It was centrifuged at 350 rpm for 20 minutes, the supernatant was discarded in a beaker with alcohol, the bottom of the bacterial biomass was conserved, sterile saline was added to each tube and vortexed for 2 minutes until reaching the 0,5\par McFarland scale and read in the JASCO V-730 spectrophotometer with the spectra manager TM software until reaching an absorbance of 0,200 at 655 nm, obtaining an inoculum of 106 CFU/mL. 500 µL of bacterial inoculum was taken, dropped in the center of the Petri dish with Muller Hinton 15 . One disc of antibiotic Amoxicillin was placed as positive control, one blank disk with DMSO as negative control and 5 blank discs with the respective dilutions from Cannabidiol oil, which would be at concentrations of 0,1 \%; 0,3 \%; 0,4 \% 0,6 \% and 0,8 \% in a volume of 20 µL. Petro dishes with S. aureus and S. epidermidis were placed in an incubator at 37°C for 24 hours; P. Acnes was incubated in anaerobiosis at 35 °C.\par When the time of 24 hours in the incubator for S. aureus, S. epidermidis and P. acnes had passed, each Petri dish was checked to with a caliper ruler.\par The percentage of inhibition of each bacterium with respect to each concentration was calculated using the following reference formula (1) from \hyperref[b8]{9} .\par 7 grams of A. salina eggs were obtained from a commercial house, 2 g of egg were weighed, hydrated for 30 min with distilled water, then 25 mL of sodium hypochlorite were added (4 replicates), the eggs were recovered and rinse with distilled water. For the incubation, a 3 liter bottle was used, 1500 mL of 2 \% salina water was added, pH 8, temperature 24 °C and constant aeration for 48 hours 22.\par To make the emulsions with Cannabidiol (CBD) oil, a 1:1 ratio of oil and tween 80 was used a co-emulsifier used in the cosmetic and food area due to its low toxicity level and according to the work carried out by \hyperref[b16]{15} it is considered innocuous with Artemia. Cannabidiol oil was used to obtain emulsion at 3.2 \%; 1.6 \%; 0.8 \%; 0.4 \% and 0.2 \% with which we worked in test tubes with A. salina to determine the LD50.\par After 24 hours of incubation, dead nauplii were counted using a NIKON SMZ745 stereoscope, where those that did not show any seconds were considered dead. The percentage of inhibition for P. acnes is 91.2\% at a concentration of 0.8\% of Cannabidiol oil, which gives a high percentage of inhibition compared to a commercial antibiotic, Amoxicillin, supporting of inhibition compared with a commercial antibiotic, Amoxicillin, supporting the alternative hypothesis showing that Cannabidiol oil inhibits P. acnes.\par A Tukey study showed that there is an important group of data, in which their averages are not significantly different; the group is formed by the positive control (commercial antibiotic), CBD5 (0.8\% Cannabidiol oil). 2 Average halo and percentage inhibition of cannabidiol oil against S. aureus.\par The concentration of Cannabidiol oil at 0.8 \% has an inhibition percentage of 98.7 \%, a value very close to the positive control which was the commercial antibiotic Amoxicillin.\par With a Tukey test it was proved that there is a group of interest where their averages are not significantly different, the group is formed by the positive control (antibiotic Amoxicillin) and CBD5 (0.8\% Cannabidiol oil). The results show that the percentage of inhibition for S. epidermidis with 0.8 \% oil was 93.6 \%, affirming the alternative hypothesis on the inhibition of Cannabidiol oil against S. epidermidis.\par The Tukey test shows that there is an important group where the positive control (Amoxicillin) and CBD5 (0.8 \% Cannabidiol oil) are grouped together. As a result, we would obtain that the 0.8 \% Cannabidiol oil is similar in inhibition to the positive control (Amoxicillin) supporting the alternative hypothesis that there is at least one concentration that inhibits S. epidermidis. \section[{Toxicity test}]{Toxicity test}\par Dilutions of Cannabidiol oil were made at the intervals of: 3.2 \%; 2.8 \%; 2.4 \% 2.0 \%. In order to determine the lethal dose, a linear regression was performed and an LD50 of 4.86 \% (48 mg/mL) was obtained. \section[{IV. DISCUSSION}]{IV. DISCUSSION}\par In accordance with the studies of \hyperref[b20]{18} where he mentions that Cannabidiol has a potential antimicrobial activity against gram-positive bacteria, such as P. acnes with which, using it could be beneficial for the treatment of acne vulgaris. Cannabidiol has a potential role as an antimicrobial agent \hyperref[b26]{22} , it was demonstrated through clinical studies that Cannabidiol oil acts on sebocytes, thus having an anti-acne function, controlling sebum production, mitigating the inflammatory process and functioning as a bactericidal agent by reducing bacterial proliferation \hyperref[b3]{4,}\hyperref[b24]{21} .\par Cannabidiol oil inhibits S. aureus; the results obtained by 2 can be compared with those of this work since Cannabidiol, one of the main cannabinoids of the plant showed a potent activity against the strain S. aureus.\par The results obtained from the test with S. epidermidis can be compared with the study conducted by \hyperref[b22]{19} , where the mechanism of action of Cannabidiol in causing the death of gram-positive bacteria was evaluated, due to the ability of this compound to inhibit the release of vesicles from the bacterial membrane; these vesicles are extremely important for cell communication and pathogen-host interaction.\par In the negative control of the toxicity test with Artemia salina, saline water was used, there was no dead individual so that the test is validated as there are no natural factors that can kill the study individuals; as indicated by {\ref 24,}\hyperref[b14]{13} ; the percentage of mortality in the negative controls did not exceed 10 \%. In the positive control where 96\% alcohol was used, it was confirmed as an adequate positive control since the death of the individuals in the study was confirmed as indicated by the study of \hyperref[b27]{23} .\par The use of Cannabidiol oil at concentrations from 2 \% onwards gradually increases the number of dead A. salina \hyperref[b15]{14} . A plant oil when exceeding a LC50 of 1000 ppm in bioassays with A. salina does not have a high degree of toxicity, due to the ability of the nauplii to present a very thin cuticle, which makes them sensitive to toxicants in the medium, which penetrate through the physiological barriers and are rapidly absorbed \hyperref[b5]{6,}\hyperref[b29]{25} . \section[{V. CONCLUSIONS}]{V. CONCLUSIONS}\par The valued Cannabidiol oil was obtained from an Ecuadorian company, which presents a concentration of 500 mg/30mL. evaluation by means of the HPLC technique.\par Cannabidiol oil showed antibacterial activity with halo averages of 1.8 cm; 1.7 cm and 1.8 cm for Propionibacterium acnes, Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis respectively at a concentration of 0.8 \%, compared to the control antibiotic (Amoxicillin) with 2 cm of halo, by means of the statistical analysis it was possible to reject the null hypothesis and accept the alternative since Cannabidiol oil inhibits Propionibacterium acnes, Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis with the proposed concentrations. Likewise, the alternative hypotheses for the analysis of variance and Tukey are accepted, at least one degree of concentration of Cannabidiol oil inhibits the 3 bacteria with a similar effect to Amoxicillin. At the end of the experimental work, it was concluded that the results obtained under the laboratory test show that the use of Cannabidiol oil is effective for the control of the mentioned bacteria and it is a promising field for possible elaboration of phytoproducts for human use in order to improve and provide all the benefits offered by Cannabidiol oil.\par For the toxicity bioassay where Artemia salina was used, a LD50 value of 4.8 \% was obtained, which showed that the commercial Cannabidiol oil in a 500 mg/30mL presentation, equivalent to 1.6 \%, is a relatively innocuous product at the highest concentration and non-toxic at very low London Journal of Medical and Health Research concentrations. Although at higher concentrations survival may be negatively affected by swimming problems, the results confirmed the alternative hypothesis that the concentration of Cannabidiol oil is directly proportional to the percentage of mortality of Artemia salina.\begin{figure}[htbp] \noindent\textbf{23}\includegraphics[]{image-2.png} \caption{\label{fig_0}14 Volume 23 |}\end{figure} \begin{figure}[htbp] \noindent\textbf{} \par \begin{longtable}{P{0.8247238742565846\textwidth}P{0.012999150382327952\textwidth}P{0.0014443500424808837\textwidth}P{0.007221750212404418\textwidth}P{0.003610875106202209\textwidth}} \multicolumn{5}{l}{\textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore \textunderscore }\\ \tabcellsep \multicolumn{3}{l}{ABSTRACT}\tabcellsep \\ \multicolumn{5}{l}{Acne is one of the most common skin pathologies,}\\ \multicolumn{5}{l}{one of the causes is Propionibacterium acnes, an}\\ \multicolumn{5}{l}{anaerobic and gram-positive microorganism}\\ \multicolumn{5}{l}{that lives in the hair follicles of the skin, currently}\\ presents\tabcellsep resistance\tabcellsep to\tabcellsep antibiotic\tabcellsep based\\ \multicolumn{5}{l}{treatments; this research topic has the purpose of}\\ \multicolumn{5}{l}{evaluating the antibiotic activity of Cannabidiol}\\ \multicolumn{5}{l}{oil against Propionibacterium acnes, Staphylo-}\\ \multicolumn{5}{l}{coccus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis}\\ \multicolumn{5}{l}{and the level of toxicity against Artemia salina.}\end{longtable} \par \caption{\label{tab_0}}\end{figure} \begin{figure}[htbp] \noindent\textbf{1} \par \begin{longtable}{P{0.5430555555555555\textwidth}P{0.14756944444444445\textwidth}P{0.04131944444444444\textwidth}P{0.11805555555555555\textwidth}} Bacteria\tabcellsep Concentration\tabcellsep ?\tabcellsep \% inhibition\\ \tabcellsep 0,8\tabcellsep 1,9\tabcellsep 91,2\\ P. acnes\tabcellsep Control +\tabcellsep 2,0\tabcellsep 100\\ \multicolumn{4}{l}{1 Average halo and percentage inhibition of cannabidiol oil against P. acnes}\end{longtable} \par \begin{quote} Antibacterial Effect of Cannabidiol Oil Against Propionibacterium Acnes, Staphylococcus Aureus, Staphylococcus Epidermidis and Level of Toxicity against Artemia Salina © 2023 Great ] Britain Journals Press III. RESULTS\end{quote} \caption{\label{tab_2}Table 1 :}\end{figure} \begin{figure}[htbp] \noindent\textbf{2} \par \begin{longtable}{P{0.20942028985507247\textwidth}P{0.3079710144927536\textwidth}P{0.08623188405797101\textwidth}P{0.2463768115942029\textwidth}} Bacteria\tabcellsep Concentration\tabcellsep ?\tabcellsep \% inhibition\\ S. aureus\tabcellsep 0,8\tabcellsep 1.7\tabcellsep 98.7\\ \tabcellsep Control +\tabcellsep 1.8\tabcellsep 100\end{longtable} \par \caption{\label{tab_3}Table 2 :}\end{figure} \begin{figure}[htbp] \noindent\textbf{3} \par \begin{longtable}{P{0.5666666666666667\textwidth}P{0.13621794871794873\textwidth}P{0.03814102564102564\textwidth}P{0.10897435897435896\textwidth}} Bacteria\tabcellsep Concentration\tabcellsep ?\tabcellsep \% inhibition\\ S. epidermidis\tabcellsep 0,8\tabcellsep 1.8\tabcellsep 93.6\\ \tabcellsep Control +\tabcellsep 1.9\tabcellsep 100\\ \multicolumn{4}{l}{3 Average halo and percentage inhibition of cannabidiol oil against S. epidermidis}\end{longtable} \par \caption{\label{tab_4}Table 3 :}\end{figure} \label{foot_0}\footnote{\label{foot_0} © 2023 Great ] Britain Journals Press} \backmatter \subsection[{ACKNOWLEDGMENTS}]{ACKNOWLEDGMENTS}\par Our most sincere thanks to the technical team of the life sciences laboratories of the Salesian Polytechnic University, to our friends, colleagues and family. \par Author Contributions: "Conceptualization, Grace Pila and Danny Segarra.; methodology, Grace Pila, and Danny Segarra.; software, Danny Segarra..; investigation, Grace Pila and Danny Segarra.; writing-original draft preparation, Grace Pila and Danny Segarra.; supervision, Marco Cerna; funding acquisition, Grace Pila and Danny Segarra. 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