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ArticleAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2009

In vitro activity and in vivo efficacy of clavulanic acid against Acinetobacter baumannii.

Alejandro Beceiro, Rafael López-Rojas, Juan Domínguez-Herrera, Fernando Docobo-Pérez, Germán Bou, Jerónimo Pachón, Spanish Network for Research in Infectious Diseases (REIPI)

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Article in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Alejandro BeceiroServicio de Microbiología-Unidad de Investigación, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Juan Canalejo, 15006 La Coruña, Spain.
Rafael López-Rojas
Juan Domínguez-Herrera
Fernando Docobo-Pérez
Germán Bou
Jerónimo Pachón
Spanish Network for Research in Infectious Diseases (REIPI)
Universidad de Sevilla · ESComplexo Hospitalario Universitario A Coruña · ESHospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío · ES

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Clavulanic acid (CLA) exhibits low MICs against some Acinetobacter baumannii strains. The present study evaluates the efficacy of CLA in a murine model of A. baumannii pneumonia. For this purpose, two clinical strains, Ab11 and Ab51, were used; CLA MICs for these strains were 2 and 4 mg/liter, respectively, and the imipenem (IPM) MIC was 0.5 mg/liter for both. A pneumonia model in C57BL/6 mice was used. The CLA dosage (13 mg/kg of body weight given intraperitoneally) was chosen to reach a maximum concentration of the drug in serum similar to that in humans and a time during which the serum CLA concentration remained above the MIC equivalent to 40% of the interval between doses. Six groups (n = 15) were inoculated with Ab11 or Ab51 and were allocated to IPM or CLA therapy or to the untreated control group. In time-kill experiments, CLA was bactericidal only against Ab11 whereas IPM was bactericidal against both strains. CLA and IPM both decreased bacterial concentrations in lungs, 1.78 and 2.47 log10 CFU/g (P < or = 0.001), respectively, in the experiments with Ab11 and 2.42 and 2.28 log10 CFU/g (P < or = 0.001), respectively, with Ab51. IPM significantly increased the sterility of blood cultures over that for the controls with both strains (P < or = 0.005); CLA had the same effect with Ab51 (P < 0.005) but not with Ab11 (P = 0.07). For the first time, we suggest that CLA may be used for the treatment of experimental severe A. baumannii infections.

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Acinetobacter baumanniiAcinetobacter InfectionsAnimalsAnti-Bacterial AgentsClavulanic AcidFemaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMicrobial Sensitivity TestsPneumoniaAnti-Bacterial AgentsClavulanic Acid

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PMID19635957
PMCPMC2764194
OpenAlexW2138675768

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