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Antimicrobial Synergy Testing by the Inkjet Printer-assisted Automated Checkerboard Array and the Manual Time-kill Method
Published on: April 18, 2019
Triple antimicrobial combinations with potent synergistic activity against M. abscessus
Yanqin Huang1,2, Lucius Chiaraviglio2, Ibidunni Bode-Sojobi1,2
1Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Abstract:
Synergy of antimicrobial combinations was tested against contemporary Mycobacteroides abscessus isolates using 2D and 3D checkerboard assays. Triple combinations of omadacycline-azithromycin-clofazimine, tigecycline-azithromycin-clofazimine, omadacycline-azithromycin-linezolid, and omadacycline-azithromycin-contezolid demonstrated synergy (fractional inhibitory concentration index ≤ 0.5) against 33%, 31%, 62%, and 66% of isolates, respectively. Notably, in all triple combinations, macrolide-resistant M. abscessus subsp. abscessus and M. abscessus subsp. bolletii isolates were fully sensitized to azithromycin at the FIC index, as were isolates with elevated clofazimine MICs.
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