| Literature DB >> 24247139 |
Louise M Oleksiuk1, M Hong Nguyen, Ellen G Press, Cassaundra L Updike, Jessica A O'Hara, Yohei Doi, Cornelius J Clancy, Ryan K Shields.
Abstract
We compared in vitro killing of colistin, doripenem, and sulbactam by time-kill methods against Acinetobacter baumannii isolates collected from patients before and after colistin-doripenem treatment (initial and recurrent isolates, respectively). Colistin-doripenem bactericidal activity against recurrent isolates was attenuated (mean log10 kill, -5.74 versus -2.88; P = 0.01) but was restored by adding sulbactam. Doripenem MICs rather than colistin MICs correlated with the activity of colistin-doripenem. Among colistin-resistant isolates, colistin-doripenem-sulbactam combinations achieved greater killing than colistin-doripenem alone (-5.65 versus -2.43; P = 0.04).Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID: 24247139 PMCID: PMC3910865 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01779-13
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Antimicrob Agents Chemother ISSN: 0066-4804 Impact factor: 5.191