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Comparison of in vitro static and dynamic assays to evaluate the efficacy of an antimicrobial drug combination against Staphylococcus aureus

Broussou, D C; Toutain, P-L; Woehrlé, F; El Garch, F; Bousquet-Mélou, A; Ferran, A A

Authors

D C Broussou

P-L Toutain

F Woehrlé

F El Garch

A Bousquet-Mélou

A A Ferran



Abstract

An easily implementable strategy to reduce treatment failures in severe bacterial infections is to combine already available antibiotics. However, most in vitro combination assays are performed by exposing standard bacterial inocula to constant concentrations of antibiotics over less than 24h, which can be poorly representative of clinical situations. The aim of this study was to assess the ability of static and dynamic in vitro Time-Kill Studies (TKS) to identify the potential benefits of an antibiotic combination (here, amikacin and vancomycin) on two different inoculum sizes of two S. aureus strains. In the static TKS (sTKS), performed by exposing both strains over 24h to constant antibiotic concentrations, the activity of the two drugs combined was not significantly different the better drug used alone. However, the dynamic TKS (dTKS) performed over 5 days by exposing one strain to fluctuating concentrations representative of those observed in patients showed that, with the large inoculum, the activities of the drugs, used alone or in combination, significantly differed over time. Vancomycin did not kill bacteria, amikacin led to bacterial regrowth whereas the combination progressively decreased the bacterial load. Thus, dTKS revealed an enhanced effect of the combination on a large inoculum not observed in sTKS. The discrepancy between the sTKS and dTKS results highlights that the assessment of the efficacy of a combination for severe infections associated with a high bacterial load could be demanding. These situations probably require the implementation of dynamic assays over the entire expected treatment duration rather than the sole static assays performed with steady drug concentrations over 24h.

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Broussou, D. C., Toutain, P., Woehrlé, F., El Garch, F., Bousquet-Mélou, A., & Ferran, A. A. (2019). Comparison of in vitro static and dynamic assays to evaluate the efficacy of an antimicrobial drug combination against Staphylococcus aureus. PLoS ONE, 14(1), e0211214. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211214

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jan 9, 2019
Publication Date Jan 23, 2019
Deposit Date Jan 25, 2019
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal PLoS One
Publisher Public Library of Science
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 14
Issue 1
Pages e0211214
DOI https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211214
Public URL https://rvc-repository.worktribe.com/output/1383821

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