Markham P N
Influx, Inc., Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 1999 Apr;43(4):988-9. doi: 10.1128/AAC.43.4.988.
Recent evidence supports the contribution of a multidrug efflux mechanism to fluoroquinolone resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae. In this paper I show that reserpine, an inhibitor of multidrug transporters in gram-positive bacteria, dramatically suppresses the in vitro emergence of ciprofloxacin-resistant variants of S. pneumoniae, suggesting that the combination of a fluoroquinolone with an inhibitor of multidrug transport may help preserve the efficacy of this class of antibiotics.
最近的证据支持多药外排机制在肺炎链球菌对氟喹诺酮类耐药中的作用。在本文中,我表明利血平,一种革兰氏阳性菌多药转运体的抑制剂,能显著抑制肺炎链球菌环丙沙星耐药变体的体外出现,这表明氟喹诺酮类药物与多药转运抑制剂联合使用可能有助于保持这类抗生素的疗效。