Antilactoferrin activity of microorganisms
Bukharin, O.V.; Kartashova, O.L.; Kirgizova, S.B.; Valysheva, I.V.
Zhurnal Mikrobiologii Epidemiologii i Immunobiologii 6: 7-10
2005
ISSN/ISBN: 0372-9311 PMID: 16438366 Document Number: 592612
The detection rate of the antilactoferrin sign and the level of its manifestation in 165 strains of different microbial species, isolated from patients with inflammatory diseases and intestinal dysbacteriosis, were analyzed. The detection rate of antilactoferrin activity was 43 - 90% for Escherichia coli strains, 20 - 86% for Staphylococcus aureus, 60 - 100% for Klebsiella pneumoniae, 76 - 78% for Candida albicans, isolated from different biotopes of man. Most frequently and with high levels of manifestation this sign was registered in strains isolated from the reproductive tract of women. The detection rate of this sign and the level of its manifestation in bacteria of the vaginal and cervical microbiocenosis, isolated from patients, were higher in comparison with healthy persons. The inverse dependence between the level of the antilactoferrin activity of microflora and the content of lactoferrin during the inflammatory process in women was established.