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. 1989 Mar;57(3):724–731. doi: 10.1128/iai.57.3.724-731.1989

Antagonism exerted by an association of a Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron strain and a Fusobacterium necrogenes strain against Clostridium perfringens in gnotobiotic mice and in fecal suspensions incubated in vitro.

N Yurdusev 1, M Ladire 1, R Ducluzeau 1, P Raibaud 1
PMCID: PMC313169  PMID: 2537255

Abstract

Antagonism between an association of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron and Fusobacterium necrogenes strains and two strains of Clostridium perfringens was evidenced both in vivo in gnotobiotic mice and ex vivo in fecal suspensions incubated for 22 h at 37 degrees C. Several features of this antagonism were similar in and ex vivo. (i) An obligate and continuous synergy between B. thetaiotaomicron and F. necrogenes was required; (ii) the two C. perfringens strains did not respond to the same extent to this antagonism; and (iii) expression of the antagonism was host and diet dependent. Neither diffusible nor soluble inhibitory substances were detectable in feces of gnotobiotic mice, nor could depletion of nutrients be identified as causing antagonism in both in and ex vivo experiments. Our findings support the hypothesis that a reversible bacteriostasis induced by the inhibitory strains acting together continuously, and hindering the target strain from utilizing available nutrients, was responsible for this antagonism.

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