Author:
Zhou Alice,Kang Tina Manzhu,Yuan Jessica,Beppler Casey,Nguyen Caroline,Mao Zhiyuan,Nguyen Minh Quan,Yeh Pamela,Miller Jeffrey H.
Abstract
ABSTRACTGram-negative bacteria are normally resistant to the antibiotic vancomycin (VAN), which cannot significantly penetrate the outer membrane. We usedEscherichia colimutants that are partially sensitive to VAN to study synergies between VAN and 10 other antibiotics representing six different functional categories. We detected strong synergies with VAN and nitrofurantoin (NTR) and with VAN and trimethoprim (TMP) and moderate synergies with other drugs, such as aminoglycosides. These synergies are powerful enough to show the activity of VAN against wild-typeE. coliat concentrations of VAN as low as 6.25 μg/ml. This suggests that a very small percentage of exogenous VAN does enterE. colibut normally has insignificant effects on growth inhibition or cell killing. We used the results of pairwise interactions with VAN and the other 10 antibiotics tested to place VAN into a functional category of its own, as previously defined by Yeh et al. (P. Yeh, A. I. Tschumi, and R. Kishony, Nat Genet 28:489–494, 2006,http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ng1755).
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Pharmacology (medical),Pharmacology
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