Influence of oxygen on the fermentative metabolism of metronidazole-sensitive and resistant strains of Trichomonas vaginalis.

Ellis, Jayne E., Cole, Deborah and Lloyd, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5656-0571 1992. Influence of oxygen on the fermentative metabolism of metronidazole-sensitive and resistant strains of Trichomonas vaginalis. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology 56 (1) , pp. 79-88. 10.1016/0166-6851(92)90156-e

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Abstract

The microaerophilic protozoon Trichomonas vaginals responds to extracellular changes in oxygen concentration: acetate, lactate, ethanol, H2 and CO2 formation, as well as glucose-depletion rates, are affected. All these variables except ethanol production rates, also differed between clinically metronidazole-sensitive (1910) and resistant (IR78 and CDC85) strains. Most interesting were the greatly increased glucose-scavenging rates of resistant isolates and their low specific activities of hydrogenase and H2 formation rates by comparison with the metronidazole-sensitive strain. Results suggest that all three strains of this parasite are well adapted to the O2 levels prevailing in situ (13-56 microM). Thus, vaginal oxygen tensions have more pronounced effects on the balances of fermentation products in the resistant strains, and results indicate that these strains may then use hydrogenosomal pathways to their advantage.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Biosciences
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0166-6851
Date of Acceptance:	23 July 1992
Last Modified:	26 Oct 2022 08:33
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/127785

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