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Synergy of drug combinations in treating multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa #MMPMID25848402
Rizvi M; Ahmad J; Khan F; Shukla I; Malik A; Sami H
Australas Med J 2015[]; 8 (1): 1-6 PMID25848402show ga
Background: With the emergence of metallo-betalactamases (MBL) in Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa), the value of carbapenem, the drug of last resort, is being severely compromised. Curtailing the use of carbapenems becomes paramount if resistance is to be reined in. Aims: To study the role of synergy between combinations of drugs as an alternative treatment choice for P. aeruginosa. Synergy was studied between combinations of levofloxacin with piperacillin-tazobactam and levofloxacin with cefoperazone-sulbactam by time-kill and chequerboard techniques. Methods: P. aeruginosa were tested for antibiotic susceptibility by the disc diffusion assay (260 isolates) and E-test (60 isolates). Synergy testing by chequerboard and time-kill assays was performed with combinations of piperacillin-tazobactam with levofloxacin (11 isolates) and cefoperazone-sulbactam with levofloxacin (10 isolates). Results: Nearly all isolates were susceptible to piperacillin-tazobactam (96.1 per cent), followed by piperacillin (78.5 per cent). Seventy-one isolates (27.3 per cent) were found to be multidrug resistant and 19.6 per cent were ESBL producers. MIC50 of amikacin was 32?g/ml and MIC90 was 64?g/ml. MIC50 and MIC90 of cefoperazone-sulbactam was 32?g/ml and 64?g/ml, and for levofloxacin it was 10?g/ml and 240?g/ml, respectively. Piperacillin-tazobactam had MIC50 and MIC90 of 5?g/ml and 10?g/ml, respectively. Synergy was noted in 72.7 per cent isolates for levofloxacin and piperacillin-tazobactam combination, the remaining 27.3 per cent isolates showed addition by both chequerboard and time-kill assay. For levofloxacin and cefoperazone-sulbactam, only 30 per cent isolates had synergy, 40 per cent showed addition, 20 per cent indifference, and 10 per cent were antagonistic by the chequerboard method. Conclusion: The combination of levofloxacin and piperacillin-tazobactam is a good choice for treatment of such strains.
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