Asghari Ozma Mahdi, Mahmoodzadeh Hosseini Hamideh, Ataee Mohammad Hossein, Mirhosseini Seyed Ali
Student Research Committee, Baqiytallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Applied Microbiology Research Center, Biomedicine Technologies Institute, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Iran J Microbiol. 2024 Aug;16(4):497-508. doi: 10.18502/ijm.v16i4.16309.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The most common cause of healthcare-associated diarrhea is infection (CDI), which causes severe and recurring symptoms. The increase of antibiotic-resistant requires alternate treatments. Postbiotics, metabolites produced by probiotics, fight CDI owing to their antibacterial capabilities. This study aims to evaluate the antibacterial, antibiofilm, and anti-toxigenic potential of postbiotics in combating CDI. MATERIALS AND METHODS: GC-MS evaluated postbiotics from and . Disk diffusion and broth microdilution determined antibacterial inhibition zones and MICs. Microtiter plates assessed antibiofilm activity. MTT assay evaluated postbiotics anti-viability on HEK293. ELISA testing postbiotic detoxification of toxins A and B. Postbiotics were examined for and genes expression using real-time PCR. RESULTS: The most identified and postbiotic compounds were glycolic acid (7.2%) and butyric acid (13.57%). and displayed 13 and 10 mm inhibition zones and 2.5 and 5 mg/ml MICs against reduced biofilm at 1.25 mg/ml by 49% and by 31%. MTT assay showed both postbiotics had little influence on cell viability, which was over 80%. The detoxification power of postbiotics revealed that decreased toxin A and B production more effectively than , and also their related and genes expression reduction were statistically significant (p < 0.05). CONCLUSION: Postbiotics' ability to inhibit bacterial growth, biofilm disruption, and toxin reduction makes them a promising adjunctive for CDI treatment and a good solution to pathogens' antibiotic resistance.
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