Lactobacillus species isolated from vaginal secretions of healthy and bacterial vaginosis-intermediate Mexican women: a prospective study

BMC Infectious Diseases

Ma Guadalupe Aguilera-Arreola¹  Graciela Castro-Escarpulli¹  Marcos Daniel Martínez-Peña² 

[1] Laboratorio de Bacteriología Médica, Departamento de Microbiología, ENCB-IPN, México D.F., Mexico;Laboratorio de Recursos Genéticos Microbianos, Centro Nacional de Recursos Genéticos, INIFAP, Tepatitlán de Morelos, Jalisco, Mexico

关键词: Bacterial vaginosis;    Vaginal microbiota;    Species identification;    16S rRNA;    Mexican population;    Lactobacilli;   

Others  :  1148752
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2334-13-189

 received in 2012-08-25, accepted in 2013-04-19,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Background

Lactobacillus jensenii, L. iners, L. crispatus and L. gasseri are the most frequently occurring lactobacilli in the vagina. However, the native species vary widely according to the studied population. The present study was performed to genetically determine the identity of Lactobacillus strains present in the vaginal discharge of healthy and bacterial vaginosis (BV) intermediate Mexican women.

Methods

In a prospective study, 31 strains preliminarily identified as Lactobacillus species were isolated from 21 samples collected from 105 non-pregnant Mexican women. The samples were classified into groups according to the Nugent score criteria proposed for detection of BV: normal (N), intermediate (I) and bacterial vaginosis (BV). We examined the isolates using culture-based methods as well as molecular analysis of the V1–V3 regions of the 16S rRNA gene. Enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC) sequence analysis was performed to reject clones.

Results

Clinical isolates (25/31) were classified into four groups based on sequencing and analysis of the 16S rRNA gene: L. acidophilus (14/25), L. reuteri (6/25), L. casei (4/25) and L. buchneri (1/25). The remaining six isolates were presumptively identified as Enterococcus species. Within the L. acidophilus group, L. gasseri was the most frequently isolated species, followed by L. jensenii and L. crispatus. L. fermentum, L. rhamnosus and L. brevis were also isolated, and were placed in the L. reuteri, L. casei and L. buchneri groups, respectively. ERIC profile analysis showed intraspecific variability amongst the L. gasseri and L. fermentum species.

Conclusions

These findings agree with previous studies showing that L. crispatus, L. gasseri and L. jensenii are consistently present in the healthy vaginal ecosystem. Additional species or phylotypes were detected in the vaginal microbiota of the non-pregnant Mexican (Hispanic-mestizo) population, and thus, these results further our understanding of vaginal lactobacilli colonisation and richness in this particular population.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Martínez-Peña et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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