Antagonistic and Adhesive Properties of Opportunistic Microflora Excreted from Ower Airways in Community-Acquired Pneumonia

Katretskaya G.G., Maslov Yu.N., Neschislyaev V.A., Chereshnev V.A.

Abstract.

Antagonistic activity and adhesive properties of
opportunistic microflora cultures excreted in diagnostically significant
concentration from the sputum of patients with community-acquired
pneumonia were investigated. It was demonstrated that all the cultures
possessed a relatively marked antagonism in relation to different teststrains.
All the investigated bacterial cultures were revealed to have
adhesive ability on the cells of the human body. The obtained data
confirm significance of these properties in general pathogenic and
persistent potential of opportunistic microflora.

Keywords:

microbial antagonism, adhesion, community-acquired pneumonia.

Authors
Katretskaya Galina G.
Maslov Yuri N.
Neschislyaev Valeri A.
State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education “Perm
State Academy of Medicine named after Academician E.A. Wagner” of Ministry of
Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation;
Chereshnev Valeri A.
State Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Immunology and Physiology Urals
Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg, Russia
614051 Maslov Yu.N., Zvonareva Str. 3-10, Perm, Russia
e-mail: maslov_1@mail.ru