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ArticleThe Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy2022

Omadacycline efficacy in the hollow fibre system model of pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex and potency at clinically attainable doses.

Moti Chapagain, Jotam G Pasipanodya, Shruti Athale, Claude Bernal, Rachel Trammell, David Howe, Tawanda Gumbo

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Article in The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. A systematic review of tetracyclines for nontuberculous mycobacteria: focus on rapidly growing mycobacteria.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Moti ChapagainHollow Fiber System & Experimental Therapeutics Laboratory, Praedicare Inc., 14830 Venture Drive, Dallas, Texas, USA.
Jotam G PasipanodyaQuantitative Preclinical & Clinical Sciences Department, Praedicare Inc., 14830 Venture Drive, Dallas, Texas, USA.
Shruti AthaleHollow Fiber System & Experimental Therapeutics Laboratory, Praedicare Inc., 14830 Venture Drive, Dallas, Texas, USA.
Claude BernalPraedicare Chemistry, Praedicare Inc., 14830 Venture Drive, Dallas, Texas, USA.
Rachel TrammellPraedicare Chemistry, Praedicare Inc., 14830 Venture Drive, Dallas, Texas, USA.
David HoweHollow Fiber System & Experimental Therapeutics Laboratory, Praedicare Inc., 14830 Venture Drive, Dallas, Texas, USA.
Tawanda GumboHollow Fiber System & Experimental Therapeutics Laboratory, Praedicare Inc., 14830 Venture Drive, Dallas, Texas, USA.

Funding

Investigator Initiated Research 2020-0008-Gumbo
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesThe standard of care (SOC) for the treatment of pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) disease (clarithromycin, rifabutin, and ethambutol) achieves sustained sputum conversion rates of only 54%. Thus, new treatments should be prioritized.

methodsWe identified the omadacycline MIC against one laboratory MAC strain and calculated drug half life in solution, which we compared with measured MAC doubling times. Next, we performed an omadacycline hollow fibre system model of intracellular MAC (HFS-MAC) exposure-effect study, as well as the three-drug SOC, using pharmacokinetics achieved in patient lung lesions. Data was analysed using bacterial kill slopes (γ-slopes) and inhibitory sigmoid Emax bacterial burden versus exposure analyses. Monte Carlo experiments (MCE) were used to identify the optimal omadacycline clinical dose.

resultsOmadacycline concentration declined in solution with a half-life of 27.7 h versus a MAC doubling time of 16.3 h, leading to artefactually high MICs. Exposures mediating 80% of maximal effect changed up to 8-fold depending on sampling day with bacterial burden versus exposure analyses, while γ-slope-based analyses gave a single robust estimate. The highest omadacycline monotherapy γ-slope was -0.114 (95% CI: -0.141 to -0.087) (r2 = 0.98) versus -0.114 (95% CI: -0.133 to -0.094) (r2 = 0.99) with the SOC. MCEs demonstrated that 450 mg of omadacycline given orally on the first 2 days followed by 300 mg daily would achieve the AUC0-24 target of 39.67 mg·h/L.

conclusionsOmadacycline may be a potential treatment option for pulmonary MAC, possibly as a back-bone treatment for a new MAC regimen and warrants future study in treatment of this disease.

Indexed as

Mycobacterium avium ComplexMycobacterium avium-intracellulare InfectionAnti-Bacterial AgentsClarithromycinDrug Therapy, CombinationEthambutolHumansLungTetracyclinesAnti-Bacterial AgentsClarithromycinEthambutolomadacyclineTetracyclines

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PMCPMC9155607
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