Area Bacteriología, Departamento de Microbiología e Inmunología, Facultad Ciencias Exactas, Físico-Químicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto (UNRC), 5800, Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina.
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
AAPS PharmSciTech. 2018 Feb;19(2):886-895. doi: 10.1208/s12249-017-0895-x. Epub 2017 Oct 17.
In the majority of Latin-American countries, including Argentina, there is a limited availability of vaginal bioproducts containing probiotics in the market. In addition, the conventional treatments of genital tract infections in women represent a high cost to the public health systems. The future development of this type of bioproducts that employ specific lactobacilli strains would not only have a meaningful impact on women's health but would also represent a significant challenge to the pharmaceutical industry. The aims of the work described in this paper were (i) to study different pharmaceutical formulations of vaginal ovules containing Lactobacillus fermentum L23 and L. rhamnosus L60, to determine in which formulation lactobacilli viability was sustained for longer time and (ii) to evaluate if probiotic strains maintained both the antimicrobial activity and biofilm-producing ability after being recovered from the ovules. In this study, we developed and characterized three pharmaceutical formulations containing different glycerol amounts and specific lactobacilli strains. Three relevant parameters, cell viability, antimicrobial activity, and biofilm production, by lactobacilli recovered from the ovules were tested. Although the viability of L23 and L60 strains was mainly influenced by high ovule's glycerol proportion, they survived at 4 °C during the 180 days. Both lactobacilli's antimicrobial activity and biofilm-producing ability were maintained for all treatments. In conclusion, employing a much reduced number of components, we were able to select the most suitable pharmaceutical formulation which maintained not only lactobacilli viability for a long period of time but also their antimicrobial activity and biofilm-producing ability.
在包括阿根廷在内的大多数拉丁美洲国家,市场上可获得的含有益生菌的阴道生物制品有限。此外,女性生殖道感染的常规治疗方法对公共卫生系统来说是一笔巨大的开支。未来开发的这种使用特定乳杆菌菌株的生物制品不仅将对女性健康产生重大影响,也将对制药行业构成重大挑战。本文工作的目的是:(i)研究含有乳杆菌发酵乳杆菌 L23 和鼠李糖乳杆菌 L60 的阴道栓剂的不同药物制剂,以确定哪种制剂能使乳杆菌存活更长时间;(ii)评估在从栓剂中回收后,益生菌菌株是否保持了抗菌活性和生物膜形成能力。在这项研究中,我们开发并表征了三种含有不同甘油含量和特定乳杆菌菌株的药物制剂。测试了从栓剂中回收的乳酸菌的三个相关参数:细胞活力、抗菌活性和生物膜生成。虽然 L23 和 L60 菌株的活力主要受高栓剂甘油比例的影响,但它们在 4°C 下可存活 180 天。两种乳酸菌的抗菌活性和生物膜形成能力都得到了维持。总之,通过使用更少的成分,我们能够选择最合适的药物制剂,不仅能长时间保持乳酸菌的活力,而且能保持其抗菌活性和生物膜形成能力。
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