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Juliana Januário Gaudereto1, Lauro Vieira Perdigão Neto1, Gleice Cristina Leite1, Roberta Ruedas Martins1, Gladys Villas Boas do Prado1, Flavia Rossi2, Thais Guimarães3, Anna Sara Levin1, Silvia Figueiredo Costa4.
Abstract
Susceptibility of ceftazidime-avibactam and in vitro synergy with meropenem were investigated using disk approximation and time-kill assays against 11 multiresistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates harboring oxacillinases and 5 Serratia marcescens isolates carrying bla KPC-2 Ceftazidime-avibactam was very active and synergistic with meropenem against multiresistant S. marcescens isolates. On the other hand, only the A. baumannii isolates coharboring bla OXA-23 and bla OXA-117 displayed synergy. The disk approximation technique presented good sensitivity for synergism in S. marcescens infection.Entities:
Keywords: Acinetobacter baumanniizzm321990; Serratia marcescenszzm321990; ceftazidime-avibactam; disk approximation; time kill
Year: 2019 PMID: 30783003 PMCID: PMC6496051 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.02367-18
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Antimicrob Agents Chemother ISSN: 0066-4804 Impact factor: 5.191