Attenuated vancomycin bactericidal activity against Staphylococcus aureus hemB mutants expressing the small-colony-variant phenotype - PubMed (original) (raw)

Attenuated vancomycin bactericidal activity against Staphylococcus aureus hemB mutants expressing the small-colony-variant phenotype

Brian T Tsuji et al. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2008 Apr.

Abstract

The in vitro bactericidal activities of vancomycin against Staphylococcus aureus hemB mutants displaying the small-colony-variant phenotype and their parental strains were evaluated. Vancomycin killing activities against hemB mutants were markedly attenuated, demonstrating approximately 50% less effect, a result which was well described by a Hill-type pharmacodynamic model.

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Results from vancomycin time-kill experiments evaluating bactericidal activity toward S. aureus strains displaying the normal (N) and SCV phenotypes. The key to symbols for each regimen is as follows: control (•) and 0.25 (▾), 0.5 (▪), 1 (♦), 2 (▴), 4 (formula image), 8 (•), 16 (▾), 32 (▪), and 64 (♦) times the MIC. MSSA, methicillin-susceptible S. aureus.

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