Agent for the anti-adhesion of skin pathogenic flora
View Patent ↗Bacterial agents for preparing compositions which are for cosmetic, pharmaceutical or veterinary use and which are intended to stabilize and/or regulate the cutaneous ecosystem of mammals. These bacterial agents are extracts of a bacterium, or a bacterium and are selected for their adhesion to skin cells and anti-adhesion to pathogens of the cutaneous system. The invention also relates to compositions containing such agents.
1. A method of treating a skin infection caused by methycilin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus by topical application of a pharmaceutical composition comprising 0.5% to 1% by weight of Lactobacillus johnsonii CNCM I-1225 to the infected skin, wherein the treatment with Lactobacillus johnsonii CNCM I-1225 decreases the number of methycilin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus bacteria in the infected skin.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the Lactobacillus johnsonii CNCM I-1225 is deactivated.