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L Davies Forsman1, T Schön2, U S H Simonsson3, J Bruchfeld4, M Larsson5, P Juréen6, E Sturegård7, C G Giske8, K Ängeby9.
Abstract
We investigated the activity of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (SXT) against Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the pathogen that causes tuberculosis (TB). The MIC distribution of SXT was 0.125/2.4 to 2/38 mg/liter for the 100 isolates tested, including multi- and extensively drug-resistant isolates (MDR/XDR-TB), whereas the intracellular MIC90 of sulfamethoxazole (SMX) for the pansusceptible strain H37Rv was 76 mg/liter. In an exploratory analysis using a ratio of the unbound area under the concentration-time curve from 0 to 24 h over MIC (fAUC0-24/MIC) using ≥ 25 as a potential target, the cumulative fraction response was ≥ 90% at doses of ≥ 2,400 mg of SMX. SXT is a potential treatment option for MDR/XDR-TB.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 25246405 PMCID: PMC4249568 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.02995-14
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Antimicrob Agents Chemother ISSN: 0066-4804 Impact factor: 5.191