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ArticleAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2012

Use of Carbapenems against clinical, nontyphoid Salmonella isolates: results from in vitro and in vivo animal studies.

Hung-Jen Tang, Chi-Chung Chen, Chun-Cheng Zhang, Kuo Chen Cheng, Shyh-Ren Chiang, Yu-Hsin Chiu, Yee Huang Ku, Wen-Chien Ko, Yin-Ching Chuang

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Article in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Ecology and epidemiology of multidrug-resistantOne health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2025
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  3. Organoid and Enteroid Modeling ofFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2018
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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Hung-Jen TangDepartments of Medicine, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan.
Chi-Chung Chen
Chun-Cheng Zhang
Kuo Chen Cheng
Shyh-Ren Chiang
Yu-Hsin Chiu
Yee Huang Ku
Wen-Chien Ko
Yin-Ching Chuang
Chi Mei Medical Center · TWChia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science · TWNational Cheng Kung University Hospital · TW

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The emergence of multidrug-resistant Salmonella isolates has created the need for new therapeutic agents. We evaluated the intracellular activity of four carbapenem compounds against clinical nontyphoid Salmonella (NTS) isolates in vitro and ex vivo. Subsequently, the efficacy of carbapenem treatment against selected Salmonella isolates in vivo was assessed using a murine peritonitis model. The MIC(50) and MIC(90) for doripenem, ertapenem, imipenem, and meropenem against 126 NTS isolates were found to be 0.062 and 0.062, 0.015 and 0.015, 0.5 and 1, and 0.031 and 0.031 μg/ml, respectively. The intracellular killing effect of ertapenem was sustained for 24 h and was superior to that of imipenem, meropenem, and doripenem; its effect was comparable to that of ceftriaxone. Ertapenem demonstrated an excellent pharmacokinetic profile with a percent time above the MIC of 75.5% and an area under the concentration-time curve/MIC ratio of 20,733. When peritoneal exudate cells were examined directly ex vivo from mice with Salmonella-induced peritonitis, cells from mice treated with ertapenem and ceftriaxone had intracellular and extracellular bacterial counts reduced 10(2)- to 10(4)-fold and exhibited killing effects similar to each other. The survival rates of mice inoculated with 1 × 10(5) and 10(6) CFU of a ceftriaxone-susceptible Salmonella isolate that were subsequently treated with ertapenem or ceftriaxone were 100% and 90%, respectively. When mice were inoculated with 5 × 10(4) and 10(5) CFU of a ceftriaxone-resistant and ciprofloxacin-resistant Salmonella isolate, mice treated with ertapenem had a higher survival rate than mice treated with ceftriaxone (70% versus 0% and 50% versus 0%, respectively; P < 0.001). Our results suggest that ertapenem is at least as effective as ceftriaxone in treating murine Salmonella infections and show that further clinical investigations on the potential use of ertapenem in treatment of human Salmonella infections are warranted.

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Animalsbeta-LactamsCarbapenemsCell LineDoripenemErtapenemFemaleImipenemMeropenemMiceMice, Inbred BALB CMicrobial Sensitivity TestsPeritonitisSalmonellaThienamycinsbeta-LactamsCarbapenemsDoripenemErtapenemImipenemMeropenemThienamycins

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PMID22470122
PMCPMC3370812
OpenAlexW2154986855

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