The discovery of ceftazidime/avibactam as an anti-Mycobacterium avium agent
The discovery of ceftazidime/avibactam as an anti-Mycobacterium avium agent
复制标题
DOI:
10.1093/jac/dkx306
复制
发表时间:
2017-09-01
影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
Gumbo, Tawanda
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Deshpande, Devyani;Srivastava, Shashikant;Gumbo, Tawanda
Objectives: To determine if ceftaroline and ceftazidime combined with avibactam are efficacious against pulmonary Mycobacterium aviumcomplex (MAC) disease.Methods: First, we performed a concentration-effect study of ceftaroline and ceftaroline/avibactam against extracellular MAC in test tubes. Given the difficulty of obtaining avibactam at the time of experimentation, we used a single concentration of commercial ceftazidime/avibactam, and two sets of non-treated controls, one with ceftazidime/avibactam and the other without. After finding antimicrobial activity with the ceftazidime/avibactam 'control', we performed ceftazidime/avibactam dose-effect studies in test tubes against extracellular MAC and in 24-well plates against intracellular MAC. We then performed a ceftazidime/avibactam exposureeffect and dose-fractionation studies in the hollow-fibre system model of intracellular pulmonary MAC (HFS-MAC). In each experiment, we repetitively sampled each HFS-MAC at specified times to validate ceftazidime/ avibactam pharmacokinetics and to quantify bacterial burden.Results: Ceftaroline killed extracellular MAC with maximal microbial kill (E-max) of 4.87 +/- 0.26 log(10) cfu/mL. However, the ceftazidime/avibactam 'control' also killed MAC compared with the non-treated control. Ceftazidime/avibactam E-max was 3.8 log10 cfu/mL against extracellular bacilli and 3.6 log(10) cfu/mL against intracellular MAC. In the HFS-MAC, ceftazidime/avibactam achieved a half-life of 2.5-3.3 h and killed MAC 0.61-2.40 log(10) cfu/mL below the starting bacterial burden. The ceftazidime/avibactamefficacy was linked to the proportion of the dosing interval for which the concentration persists above the MIC (fT (> MIC)), with optimal efficacy at free-drug fT(> MIC) of 52% (r(2) = 0.95).Conclusions: Ceftazidime/avibactam effectively kills MAC at exposures easily achieved in the lung by clinical doses. Efficacy was higher than with clinically achievable doses of azithromycin and ethambutol.