In vitro Susceptibility of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria to Tedizolid.

OBJECTIVE

Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) can cause pulmonary and extrapulmonary diseases. Tedizolid (TZD) is a new oxazolidinone with in vitro activity against NTM such as complex (MAC), , and complex. The aim of this study was to evaluate the TZD susceptibility profiles of clinical isolates of NTM.

METHODS

The microdilution method was used to identify the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of TZD and linezolid (LZD) for 133 clinical NTM isolates. Broth microdilution chequerboard assays were used to investigate the synergistic effects of TZD and three antibiotics on two reference isolates and eleven clinical isolates of NTM.

RESULTS

The TZD MIC and MIC for complex were 2 and 4 μg/mL, 16 and >32 μg/mL for MAC, respectively. TZD exhibited lower MICs than that of LZD for most NTM, which were positively correlated. Due to the high MIC values of TZD against MAC, it is necessary to conduct drug sensitivity tests before TZD administration. TZD-clarithromycin combination had synergistic response on complex in 3 of the 8 isolates, which lasted only 3-5 days. TZD-cefoxitin had synergistic effect against all five isolates.

CONCLUSION

Our study demonstrates that TZD had greater in vitro potency than LZD, and synergy studies suggested that TZD may be an important component of multi-drug treatment regimen.