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Protective effects of different lyoprotectants on survival of clinical bacterial isolates in a hospital biobank.
Cryobiology 2024 March 23
Nowadays the significant role of biobanks in medical, diagnostic, industrial, and environmental research is well known. Bacterial biobanks could be used as a good resource for designing new treatments, biomedical and industrial researches, and laboratory diagnostics. To have a collection of bacteria from clinical samples and maintain their long-term viability, their preservation needs appropriate protective agents, like cryoprotectants and lyoprotectants. In this study, we collected and characterized Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria carrying important antibiotic resistance markers from different clinical samples of hospitalized children. Sucrose (10%), skimmed milk (10%), skimmed milk plus sodium glutamate (10% + 1%), and bovine serum albumin (BSA, 10%) were used as lyoprotectants during the freeze-drying procedure. The survival rate of the lyophilized samples was calculated by dilution plating and measuring the colony forming unit (CFU) after 3 months of storage. The culture analysis results indicated that 25 of the 27 studied bacterial genera (Dilutions 10-3 to 10-6 ), including Shigella, Methicillin-resistant S. aureus, Acinetobacter spp., Escherichia spp., Pseudomonas spp., Klebsiella spp., Enterococcus spp., were recovered in cultured fractions from all preservation conditions, while 2 genera were only detected in a single preservation condition (2/27, 7.4%). Based on the results, sucrose (10%) and skimmed milk (10%) presented the most protective features. The survival rates varied significantly according to types of the bacteria. Collectively, our results showed a diversity in the recovery of different bacterial genera after lyophilization. While statistically no significant difference was detected among the studied protective agents, sucrose (10%) and skimmed milk (10%) exhibited more effective lyoprotective properties for both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria among the clinical isolates in our study.
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