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Breast milk from healthy women has higher anti-Candida properties than women with vaginal infections during pregnancy

Nisaa AA 1 , Oon CE 2 , Sreenivasan S 2 , Balakrishnan V 2 , Tan JJ 3 , Teh CS 4 Show all authors , Sany S 3 , Todorov SD 5 , Liu G 6 , Park YH 7 , Liong MT 1

Affiliations 

  • 1 School of Industrial Technology, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang, Malaysia
  • 2 Institute for Research in Molecular Medicine (INFORMM), Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang, Malaysia
  • 3 Advanced Medical and Dental Institute, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 13200 Penang, Malaysia
  • 4 Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 5 ProBacLab, Department of Advanced Convergence, Handong Global University, Pohang, Gyeongbuk 37554 Republic of Korea
  • 6 Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101 People's Republic of China
  • 7 Jeonbuk Institute for Food-Bioindustry, Probionic Corporation, 111-18, Wonjangdong-gil, Deokjin-gu, Jeonju-si, 54810 Jeollabuk-do South Korea
Food Sci Biotechnol, 2023 Mar;32(4):471-480.
PMID: 36911325 DOI: 10.1007/s10068-022-01088-x

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the different immunological and antimicrobial properties of breast milk from women with (W) or without (WO) vaginal yeast infections during pregnancy in 85 lactating women (W, n = 43; WO, n = 42). Concentrations of IL-10, IgA, IgM, IgG, EGF, and TGF-α were similar in both groups. However, breast milk of women aged below 31 years old from the W-group showed higher concentration of EGF than the WO-group (p = 0.031). Breast milk from WO-group exhibited higher anti-Candida properties than W-group, both via growth inhibition and aggregation of yeast cells (p 

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