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C Bridonneau

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PubMed1994

Relationship between intestinal colonization of Bifidobacterium bifidum in infants and the presence of exogenous and endogenous growth-promoting factors in their stools.

The relationship between the intestinal colonization of a test strain of Bifidobacterium bifidum requiring human milk growth-promoting factors in vitro and the presence of growth-promoting factors either in the stools of human neonates or in their diet was investigated. Thirty-one infants were inoculated with a single dose of this strain within the first 8 d of life. Spores of a strictly thermophilic Bacillus admixed with the B. bifidum inoculum were used as transit marker, and the fecal population levels of both strain B. bifidum and the transit marker were recorded within 6 d after inoculation. Strain B. bifidum was found in the predominant flora of six neonates. It was eliminated more quickly than the transit marker from the stools of 17 neonates. Its population remained at a low level in the remaining eight neonates. Amounts of B. bifidum growth-promoting factor in the infant stools were not significantly different whether they harbored strain B. bifidum at a high population level or not. Although these amounts were significantly higher in infants fed human milk containing B. bifidum growth-promoting factor than in infants fed formula milk without B. bifidum growth-promoting factor, strain B. bifidum became established in one of the 18 infants fed human milk and in five of the 13 formula-fed infants. No relationship could be found between the population levels of strain B. bifidum and those of facultatively anaerobic streptococci and enterobacteria already present on d 0 and 1. These results clearly show that no relationship exists between the intestinal colonization of B. bifidum and the amounts of exogenous or endogenous growth-promoting factors found in stools.

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PubMed1985

Efficiency of various bacterial suspensions derived from cecal floras of conventional chickens in reducing the population level of Salmonella typhimurium in gnotobiotic mice and chicken intestines.

The antagonistic effect exerted towards Salmonella typhimurium by the flora issued from conventional chickens was studied in gnotobiotic animals. In germfree chickens and mice inoculated with S. typhimurium, the highest bacterial counts were observed in ceca, and were not significantly different in either host. The protection afforded by the inoculation of cecal flora issued from a conventional chicken was more effective when this flora was inoculated first into germfree chickens than when it was given only after inoculation with S. typhimurium. Administration of a cecal flora from a 15-day-old chick to gnotobiotic mice and chicken resulted in the inhibition of a further intestinal colonization by S. typhimurium in both hosts. Sixteen strains were isolated among the predominant populations of the fecal flora from chicken flora recipient mice. Association of 14 strains of strictly anaerobic bacteria with 2 strains of Escherichia coli and Streptococcus faecium only decreased the number of S. typhimurium in the ileum of gnotobiotic mice, but not in their cecum. Anaerobe cultures were obtained from 10(-6) and 10(-8) dilutions prepared from the fecal flora of gnotobiotic recipient mice. Antagonistic bacteria were present only in cultures from the 10(-6) dilution. Cecal concentrations of volatile fatty acids were shown not to be the sole factor implicated in the antagonistic effect against S. typhimurium.

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PubMed1967

[A weak B antigen].

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[Antagonistic effect against "Clostridium perfringens" exerted in the digestive tract of gnotobiotic mice by "Clostridium" strains isolated from the microflora of conventional mice (author's transl)].

Bacterial strains isolated from the digestive tract of conventional mice produced a barrier effect against a strain of Clostridium perfringens type A (strain CP) in the gastrointestinal tract of gnotobiotic mice. This barrier effect was observed when mice, monoassociated with Escherichia coli K12, were inoculated with a mixed culture of fusiform-shaped clostridia. The collection of fusiforms (collection D) was obtained from a single colony chosen from among the 26 types studied. Collection D and E. coli K12 together exerted a barrier effect against all strains of C. perfringens type A tested. No effect was observed against a C. perfringens type C strain. The expression of the barrier effect depended on the order in which the strains were used to inoculate the mice. Thus strain CP was eliminated from the digestive tract when the mice had previously been associated with collection D and E. coli K12. If the mice were inoculated with strain CP first, however, the barrier effect was only partial. We have also been able to use two strains of clostridia (C1, C3) instead of E. coli K12 to produce a drastic barrier effect against strain CP. The order in which the strains were used to inoculate the mice did not, in this case, influence the production of a barrier effect. Three strains (Da, Db, Dc) isolated from collection D, produced only a partial barrier effect against strain CP in mice previously associated with E. coli K12. These results illustrate the difficulties encountered in determining the minimal number of bacterial strains involved in the production of a barrier effect.

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[Pathogenicity of various toxinogenic types of Clostridium perfringens administered by mouth to axenic and holoxenic mice].

Axenic mice died with signs of enterotoxaemia after oral ingestion of Clostridium perfringens type C or D. Under the same conditions, C. perfringens type B was less pathogenic, and types A and E showed no pathogenicity. The microflora of conventional mice prevented the establishment of C. perfringens types B, C and D in the digestive tract and protected them against the pathogenicity of these strains. Toxins produced in the caecum of monoxenic mice harbouring C. perfringens type C were not neutralized by the anti-C. perfringens type C antiserum. This suggests that the toxins produced in vivo by this strain were different from those produced in vitro.

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[Seroanthropological studies of albino and melanoderm Bamiléké populations (Cameroon). ABO and Rhesus erythrocyte groups, hemoglobin S and taste sensitivity to phenylthiocarbamide].

Human oculocutaneous albinism is a recessive autosomic hereditary disease with a prevalence of 1/8,500 in bamileke tribe (Cameroon). ABO and Rhesus red blood cell group repartition, presence of hemoglobin S, taste sensitivity for phenylthiocarbamid in a group of 100 albino bamileke subjects were compared with these of 100 black bamileke subjects. There is no significant difference for these genetic markers mentionned above between albino and black bamileke subjects.

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