| Literature DB >> 19933800 |
G Amador1, H Gautier, V Le Mabecque, A F Miegeville, G Potel, J-M Bouler, P Weiss, J Caillon, C Jacqueline.
Abstract
The antimicrobial activities of calcium-deficient apatite loaded with different concentrations (25, 100, and 500 microg/mg) of vancomycin as a filling biomaterial were evaluated in a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) rabbit acute osteomyelitis model. Bacterial counts in bone, bone marrow, and joint fluid samples treated with forms of the apatite were compared to those in tissue samples receiving a constant intravenous vancomycin infusion after 4 days. This study demonstrates that using a calcium-deficient apatite loaded with vancomycin dramatically decreases the bacterial counts in bone and marrow.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19933800 PMCID: PMC2812125 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00434-09
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Antimicrob Agents Chemother ISSN: 0066-4804 Impact factor: 5.191