Affiliation:
1. Harbor-University of California, Los Angeles, Medical Center, Torrance 90509.
Abstract
We studied the prevention of experimental aortic endocarditis caused by a beta-lactamase-producing, aminoglycoside-resistant strain of Enterococcus faecalis (HH22) in 146 catheterized rabbits. Both vancomycin and ampicillin-sulbactam readily killed this resistant enterococcus strain in vitro. At a challenge inoculum of approximately 10(9) CFU, vancomycin (40 mg/kg intravenously [i.v.]), ampicillin (40 mg/kg i.v.), or a combination of ampicillin plus a beta-lactamase inhibitor, sulbactam (20 mg/kg, i.v.), did not prevent the development of endocarditis in any of the animals, although mean intravegetation bacterial densities were significantly lower in animals that received vancomycin than they were in animals that received other therapies (P less than 0.001). At a challenge inoculum of 10(6) CFU, vancomycin was 100% effective in preventing enterococcal endocarditis compared with ampicillin (29%; P less than 0.00001) and ampicillin-sulbactam (65%; P less than 0.01). Factors associated with the superior prophylactic efficacy of vancomycin in this model included prolonged serum inhibitory activity and time above MICs. Factors not associated with the antienterococcal prophylactic efficacy of vancomycin included the duration of the in vitro postantibiotic effect of the drug and the magnitude of the ability of this drug to enhance enterococcal in vitro opsonophagocytic killing by polymorphonuclear leukocytes. The superior prophylactic efficacy of vancomycin in this endocarditis model related to the superior pharmacokinetic profile of the drug when it was given intermittently at dose intervals of every 6 h.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Pharmacology (medical),Pharmacology
Cited by
25 articles.
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