Probiotics as a means of strengthening commensal skin microbiota in the treatment of infected soft tissue wounds

Abstract

Probiotics can promote wound healing by stimulating the production of immune cells, activation of reparative regeneration processes as well as show antagonism against pathogenic microflora. The data presented in this review of the literature indicate that the local use of probiotics to enhance the microbiota of the skin in the fight against pathogens of wound infection is a scientifically sound direction demonstrating clinically significant positive results. The results of laboratory and experimental studies can form the basis for further development and development of methods for the clinical use of probiotics in the treatment of patients with infected wounds.

Keywords

• probiotics
• skin microbiota
• soft tissue wounds
• wound infection
• treatment