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Maria V Smirnova

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Concentration-response relationships as a basis for choice of the optimal endpoints of the antimicrobial effect: daptomycin and vancomycin pharmacodynamics with staphylococci in an in vitro dynamic model.

The abilities of different indices of bacterial killing to ensure reasonable concentration-response relationships have been compared only in studies in vitro with fluoroquinolones. To ascertain the relevance of conclusions drawn in these studies to other antibiotic classes, five widely used indices that reflect the rate of initial killing (time to reduce the initial inoculum 10- and 100-fold-T(90%) and T(99%), respectively), the extent of killing (minimal number of surviving organisms-N(min)), and the entire antimicrobial effect (number of surviving organisms (N(t)) at the time t close to the end of the observation period (48 h in most experiments), and area between the control growth curve and the time-kill curve from zero point to t-ABBC) were examined with daptomycin (DAP)- and vancomycin (VAN)-exposed Staphylococcus aureus. To compare the pharmacodynamics of DAP and VAN and examine different parameters, killing kinetics of differentially susceptible S. aureus were studied over a wide range of ratios of area under the curve (AUC) to MIC. Killing kinetics of two clinical isolates, S. aureus 866 (MIC(DAP) 0.35 mg/L and MIC(VAN) 0.70 mg/L) and S. aureus 10 (MIC(DAP) 1.1mg/L and MIC(VAN) 1.3mg/L), were studied in an in vitro dynamic model that simulates human pharmacokinetics of DAP (as a single dose) and VAN (as two 12-h doses). Mono-exponential concentration decays were mimicked with half-lives of 9h (DAP) and 6h (VAN) at AUC/MIC ratios varying from 33 to 1150 h. T(90%), T(99%) and N(t) (at t=48 h) exhibited loose, if any, correlations with log AUC/MIC. Both ABBC (a direct measure of the antimicrobial effect) and N(min) (an inverse measure of the effect) correlated well with log AUC/MIC (r(2)=0.8-0.9). Based on the ABBC-log AUC/MIC relationships, the effects of DAP on S. aureus were predicted to be slightly greater than those of VAN at a given AUC/MIC ratio. The better abilities of ABBC and N(min) and the inability of T(90%) and T(99%) to provide reasonable AUC/MIC relationships with DAP and VAN support earlier findings reported with fluoroquinolones.

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Testing the mutant selection window hypothesis with Staphylococcus aureus exposed to daptomycin and vancomycin in an in vitro dynamic model.

OBJECTIVES: To extend the mutant selection window (MSW) hypothesis to include antibiotics in addition to fluoroquinolones, the pharmacodynamics of daptomycin (DAP) and vancomycin (VAN) and their ability to prevent the selection of resistant Staphylococcus aureus were studied in an in vitro model that simulates antibiotic concentrations below the MIC, between the MIC and the mutant prevention concentration (MPC), and above the MPC. METHODS: Two clinical isolates of S. aureus, S. aureus 866 (MIC(DAP) 0.35, MIC(VAN) 0.7, MPC(DAP) 1.1, MPC(VAN) 2.4 mg/L) and S. aureus 10 (MIC(DAP) 1.1, MIC(VAN) 1.3, MPC(DAP) 5.5, MPC(VAN) 11 mg/L), were exposed for five consecutive days to once-daily daptomycin (half-life 9 h) and twice-daily vancomycin (half-life 6 h) at the ratio of 24 h area under the concentration-time curve (AUC24) to MIC that varied over a 16- to 30-fold range. The cumulative antimicrobial effect was expressed by its intensity (I(E)). Changes in susceptibility and numbers of surviving organisms on agar plates containing 2x and 4x MIC of daptomycin or vancomycin were monitored daily. RESULTS: The I(E)-log AUC24/MIC plots were bacterial strain- and antibiotic-independent. This allowed combination of data obtained with both antibiotics and both organisms. Based on the sigmoid relationship between I(E) and the AUC24/MIC (r2 = 0.9), the antistaphylococcal effect of the therapeutic doses of daptomycin (4 and 6 mg/kg) against a hypothetical S. aureus with MIC equal to the MIC90 (AUC24/MIC90 380 and 570 h, respectively) was predicted to be similar to the effect of two 1 g doses of vancomycin given at a 12 h interval (AUC24/MIC90 200 h). AUC24/MIC relationships of the final-to-initial MIC ratio and logarithm of the ratio of maximal-to-initial numbers of organisms resistant to 2x and 4x MIC of daptomycin or vancomycin were bell-shaped and bacterial strain- and antibiotic-independent. Based on these relationships, an AUC24/MIC ratio that protects against the selection of resistant mutants was predicted at > or = 200 h. This protective value is less than the AUC24/MIC90s provided by the 4 mg/kg dose and considerably less than the 6 mg/kg dose of daptomycin, but it is close to the AUC24/MIC90 provided by two 1 g doses of vancomycin. CONCLUSIONS: These findings support the MSW hypothesis and suggest comparable antistaphylococcal effects of clinically achievable AUC24/MIC90s of daptomycin and vancomycin but slightly better prevention against the selection of resistant S. aureus by daptomycin.

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Comparative pharmacodynamics of the new fluoroquinolone ABT492 and levofloxacin with Streptococcus pneumoniae in an in vitro dynamic model.

The kinetics of killing of Streptococcus pneumoniae exposed to ABT492 or levofloxacin were compared. S. pneumoniae ATCC 49619 and four ciprofloxacin-resistant clinical isolates, S. pneumoniae 1149, 391, 79 and 804, were exposed to ABT492 and levofloxacin as a single dose in a dynamic model that simulates human pharmacokinetics of the quinolones. With S. pneumoniae ATCC 49619 eight-fold ranging AUC/MIC ratios (60-500 h) were simulated for each quinolone. In addition, two larger AUC/MICs, i.e., 1080 and 2150 h for ABT492 and 1460 and 3660 h for levofloxacin which correspond to 100 and 200 mg doses of ABT492 and 200 and 500 mg doses of levofloxacin, respectively, were mimicked. Each ciprofloxacin-resistant organism was exposed to the clinical doses of ABT492 (400 mg) and levofloxacin (500 mg); the respective AUC/MIC ratios were from 580 to 3470 h and from 28 to 110 h. At comparable AUC/MICs (from 60 to 500 h), regrowth of S. pneumoniae ATCC 49619 followed initial killing, and the times to regrowth were longer with levofloxacin than ABT492. However, no regrowth of S. pneumoniae ATCC 49619 occurred at the higher AUC/MICs of ABT492 (1080 and 2150 h) and levofloxacin (1460 and 3660 h). Killing of S. pneumoniae 1149, 391 and 79 without bacterial regrowth, was provided by ABT492 (AUC/MIC 3470, 2310 and 1160 h, respectively) but not levofloxacin (AUC/MIC 55, 110 and 28 h, respectively). Regrowth of S. pneumoniae 804 was observed with both ABT492 and levofloxacin (AUC/MIC 580 and 55 h, respectively). Areas between the control growth curve and the time-kill curve (ABBCs) for ABT492 against S. pneumoniae 1149, 391 and 79 were 2.6-4.2 times larger than the respective ABBCs for levofloxacin, whereas similar ABBCs were found with S. pneumoniae 804 exposed to both quinolones. These findings predict significantly greater efficacy of ABT492 than levofloxacin at clinically achievable AUC/MIC ratios against ciprofloxacin-resistant S. pneumoniae and similar efficacies of the two quinolones against susceptible organisms.

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