Overcoming tet(X)-harboring tigecycline resistance: a study on the efficacy of tigecycline-apramycin combinations
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Juan Liu1,2,3, Si-Lin Zheng1,2, Jing-Jing Wu1,2
1Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, National Risk Assessment Laboratory for Antimicrobial Resistance of Animal Original Bacteria, College of Veterinary Medicine, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China.
Introduction:
The emergence of the wide variety of novel tigecycline resistance tet(X) variants, including tet(X3), tet(X4), tet(X5), and tet(X6), has raised a serious threat to global public health and posed a significant challenge to the clinical treatment of multidrug-resistant bacterial infections.
Methods:
In this study, we evaluated the synergism of tigecycline combining with other antibiotics as a means of overcoming the tet(X)-mediated resistance in Acinetobacter spp. Antibiotic synergistic efficacy was evaluated through in vitro chequerboard experiments, time-kill assays and dose-response curves. The in vivo synergistic effect of the combination was confirmed in a mouse model of thigh with neutrophilic granulocyte reduction. Additionally, combinations were tested for their ability to prevent high-level tigecycline-resistant mutants.
Results:
We found that the combinations of tigecycline with apramycin exhibited synergistic activity against tet(X)-harboring Acinetobacter spp. with FICI of 0.088. The MICTGC decreased more than 5 times in the presence of subinhibitory levels of apramycin. The combination showed in vitro synergism in time-kill assays and in vivo therapeutic effectiveness in the mouse thigh infection model.
Discussion:
This study shed light on the synergism of tigecycline in combination with apramycin which offers a viable therapeutic alternative for infections caused by tet(X)-harboring Acinetobacter spp.
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