Polymyxin B-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Clinical Isolate Susceptible to Recombinant BPI and Cecropin P1.
Polymyxin B-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Clinical Isolate Susceptible to Recombinant BPI and Cecropin P1.
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对重组 BPI 和天蚕素 P1 敏感的多粘菌素 B 耐药鲍曼不动杆菌临床分离株。
DOI:
10.1128/aac.45.3.994-995.2001
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发表时间:
2001
影响因子:
4.9
通讯作者:
Weiss,J
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作者:
Urban,C;Mariano,N;Rahal,JJ;Tay,E;Ponio,C;Koprivnjak,T;Weiss,J
Many strains of Acinetobacter baumannii have become resistant to a variety of clinically available antibacterial agents by both intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms (4, 15). Several investigators have documented multidrug-resistant A. baumannii causing nosocomial infections and have demonstrated the in vitro and in vivo activities of imipenem, sulbactam, and the polymyxins (2, 9, 11, 14, 16). Increasing resistance to antibacterials, including sulbactam and the carbapenems, has prompted the use of polymyxin B and colistin as therapeutic agents, and within the last several years, the polymyxins have been used with increasing frequency to treat patients infected with multidrug-resistant, gram-negative bacteria, including Acinetobacter (9, 14, 16). Although the literature, both clinical and microbiological, has shown that A. baumannii has retained susceptibility to the polymyxins despite resistance to all other antibacterial agents (2, 15), we document the isolation of a polymyxin B-resistant strain of A. baumannii from a patient who was given polymyxin B for treatment of a multidrugresistant, polymyxin-susceptible strain of A. baumannii. The minimal inhibitory concentrations for the polymyxin-resistant strain (L1) were 48 g/ml (polymyxin B) and 128 g/ml (colistin) as determined by E-test methodology (AB Biodisk North America Inc., Piscataway, NJ). More importantly, we have found that this strain is susceptible in vitro to rBPI21 (Neuprex; XOMA Corporation, Berkeley, Calif.)(provided by S. Carroll), a recombinant form of the N-terminal domain of the human bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein (Table 1). This isolate was also susceptible to cecropin P1 (Sigma, St. Louis, Mo.), an antibacterial peptide from pig intestine (3). The antibacterial effects of rBPI21 and cecropin P1 were manifest both in conventional MIC and minimal bactericidal concentration (MBC) assays with Mueller-Hinton broth and in bactericidal assays with nutrient broth. In the later type of assay, the antibacterial potency of rBPI21, but not of cecropin