Affiliation:
1. National Center for Antimicrobials & Infection Control, Statens Serum Institut, 5 Artillerivej, Copenhagen S DK-2300, Denmark
2. Department of Virology, Statens Serum Institut, 5 Artillerivej, Copenhagen S DK-2300, Denmark
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Antibiotic treatment of
Staphylococcus aureus
infections is often problematic due to the slow response to therapy and the high frequency of infection recurrence. The intracellular persistence of staphylococci has been recognized and could offer a good explanation for these treatment difficulties. Knowledge of the interplay between intracellular antibiotic activity and the overall outcome of infection is therefore important. Several intracellular in vitro models have been developed, but few experimental animal models have been published. The mouse peritonitis/sepsis model was used as the basic in vivo model exploring a quantitative ex vivo extra- and intracellular differentiation assay. The intracellular presence of
S. aureus
was documented by electron microscopy. Five antibiotics, dicloxacillin, cefuroxime, gentamicin, azithromycin, and rifampin (rifampicin), were tested in the new in vivo model; and the model was able to distinguish between their extra- and intracellular effects. The intracellular effects of the five antibiotics could be ranked as follows as the mean change in the log
10
number of CFU/ml (Δlog
10
CFU/ml) between treated and untreated mice after 4 h of treatment: dicloxacillin (3.70 Δlog
10
CFU/ml) > cefuroxime (3.56 Δlog
10
CFU/ml) > rifampin (1.86 Δlog
10
CFU/ml) > gentamicin (0.61 Δlog
10
CFU/ml) > azithromycin (0.21 Δlog
10
CFU/ml). We could also show that the important factors during testing of intracellular activity in vivo are the size, number, and frequency of doses; the time of exposure; and the timing between the start of infection and treatment. A poor correlation between the intracellular accumulation of the antibiotics and the actual intracellular effect was found. This stresses the importance of performing experimental studies, like those with the new in vivo model described here, to measure actual intracellular activity instead of making predictions based on cellular pharmacokinetic and MICs.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Pharmacology (medical),Pharmacology
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