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Enhanced efficacy of putative efflux pump inhibitor/antibiotic combination treatments versus MDR strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a Galleria mellonella in vivo infection model

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08/2015
Author
Adamson, Dougal
Krikstopaityte, Vasare
Coote, Peter John
Keywords
Synergy
MexAB-OprM
Levofloxacin
Trimethoprim
Sertraline
QH301 Biology
Immunology and Microbiology(all)
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Abstract
Objectives: The objectives of this study were to compare the antibiotic susceptibility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains with increased efflux pump expression in vitro and in vivo and to use these same strains to evaluate the efficacy of combinations of antibiotics with putative efflux pump inhibitors in vivo. Methods: A collection of P. aeruginosa strains that overexpress three efflux pumps (MexAB-OprM, MexCD-OprJ and MexEF-OprN), in addition to a strain with all three Mex pumps deleted, were used. The virulence of these strains and their antibiotic susceptibility was measured in vivo using a Galleria mellonella larval infection model. The inhibitory effect of combinations of putative efflux pump inhibitors (trimethoprim and sertraline) with antibiotics on the strain overexpressing MexAB-OprM was also measured in vitro and compared with their efficacy in vivo in terms of larval survival and bacterial burden. Results: Increased expression of the individual efflux pumps, or deletion of all three, had no significant effect on the virulence of P. aeruginosa in vivo. Expression levels of the efflux pumps clearly influenced antibiotic efficacy in vivo. The efficacy of levofloxacin, piperacillin and meropenem against larvae infected with the efflux pump mutants reflected susceptibility to the same drugs in vitro. Treatment of G. mellonella larvae infected with a strain that overexpressed MexAB-OprM with a combination of putative efflux pump inhibitors and levofloxacin resulted in enhanced therapeutic benefit compared with the constituent monotherapies. Conclusions: This study has demonstrated the utility of using G. mellonella to screen for novel therapeutic options for MDR P. aeruginosa and has shown that antibiotic/efflux pump inhibitor combinations should be further investigated for clinical application.
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Adamson , D , Krikstopaityte , V & Coote , P J 2015 , ' Enhanced efficacy of putative efflux pump inhibitor/antibiotic combination treatments versus MDR strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a Galleria mellonella in vivo infection model ' , Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy , vol. 70 , no. 8 , pp. 2271-2278 . https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkv111
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Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
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Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkv111
ISSN
0305-7453
Type
Journal article
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Copyright The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. All rights reserved. This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy following peer review. The version of record, Enhanced efficacy of putative efflux pump inhibitor/antibiotic combination treatments versus MDR strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a Galleria mellonella in vivo infection model Adamson, D., Krikstopaityte, V. & Coote, P. J. 2015 In : Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy is available online at: http://jac.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/04/27/jac.dkv111
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This work was supported by the University of St Andrews.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/8688

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