ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Year : 2018 | Volume
: 10 | Issue : 4 | Page : 206--211
Action of colloidal bismuth hydroxide gel and its commercial cream on enteropathogens and colonizers of the gastrointestinal tract
Tomás Subils, Cecilia Casabonne, Agustina González, Virginia Aquili, Claudia E Balagué
Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, National University of Rosario, Suipacha, Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Tomás Subils
Suipacha 531 S2002lRK, Rosario, Santa Fe
Argentina
Background: Acute diarrheal diseases constitute a world public health problem because they are the second cause of death in children under 5 years of age. Colloidal bismuth hydroxide gel (CBHG) is an active ingredient in low-cost, antidiarrhetic drugs for oral use; it does not inhibit intestinal motility, and it features very low intestinal absorption of <1%. Materials and Methods: We analyzed the sensitivity by determining the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and the minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC); the effect on bacterial growth by studying the specific growth velocity and the generation time in growth curves; and bacterial attachment by counting viable plaques, of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli, shigatoxigenic E. coli O157:H7, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Salmonella spp., and Shigella flexneri in the commercial cream (Chobet® bismuth cream with pectin [CBCHP]), its active ingredient (CBHG), and its excipients (E) separately. Results: CBCHP: MIC 6–10 mg/ml and MBC 7.5–15 mg/ml of bismuth; CBHG: MIC 6–10 mg/ml of bismuth. E: No inhibition was observed at the concentration studied in this study. At very low subinhibitory concentrations of CBCHP and CBHG, there was already evidence of a significant decrease in growth, which could not be recorded for E. CBCHP and CBHG presented an elevated capacity for bacterial displacement, significantly greater than E. Conclusions: We believed that the results obtained in this study are very promising from the treatment standpoint, as a possible treatment for cases of diagnosis or suspicion of bacterial gastroenteritis. The antimicrobial and attachment effects of CBCHP are exclusively due to its active ingredient CBHG; these effects are promoted in the presence of E.
How to cite this article:
Subils T, Casabonne C, González A, Aquili V, Balagué CE. Action of colloidal bismuth hydroxide gel and its commercial cream on enteropathogens and colonizers of the gastrointestinal tract.J Global Infect Dis 2018;10:206-211
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Subils T, Casabonne C, González A, Aquili V, Balagué CE. Action of colloidal bismuth hydroxide gel and its commercial cream on enteropathogens and colonizers of the gastrointestinal tract. J Global Infect Dis [serial online] 2018 [cited 2023 Jan 29 ];10:206-211
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