Department of Pharmacy, The Third Hospital of Changsha, 176 Western Laodong Road, Tianxin District, Changsha, Hunan Province, 410015, People's Republic of China.
Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Anti-Resistance Microbial Drugs, Changsha, Hunan Province, People's Republic of China.
BMC Microbiol. 2024 Oct 16;24(1):409. doi: 10.1186/s12866-024-03571-3.
Bacterial biofilms, often forming on medical devices, can lead to treatment failure due to their increased antimicrobial resistance. Cefepime-avibactam (CFP-AVI) exhibits potent activities against Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) and Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae) when used with polymyxin B (PMB). However, its efficacy in biofilm-related infections is unknown. The present study aimed to evaluate the activity of PMB combined with CFP-AVI against the biofilms of PMB-resistant Gram-negative bacteria. Five K. pneumoniae strains and three P. aeruginosa strains known to be PMB-resistant and prone to biofilm formation were selected and evaluated. Antimicrobial susceptibility assays demonstrated that the minimal biofilm inhibitory and eradication concentrations of PMB and CFP-AVI for biofilms formed by the eight strains were significantly higher than the minimal inhibitory concentrations of the antibiotics for planktonic cells. The biofilm formation inhibition and eradication assays showed that PMB combined with CFP-AVI cannot only suppress the formation of biofilm but also effectively eradicate the preformed mature biofilms. In a modified in vitro pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic biofilm model, CFP-AVI monotherapy exhibited a bacteriostatic or effective activity against the biofilms of seven strains, whereas PMB monotherapy did not have any activity at 72 h. However, PMB combined with CFP-AVI demonstrated bactericidal activity against the biofilms of all strains at 72 h. In an in vivo Galleria mellonella infection model, the 7-day survival rates of larvae infected with biofilm implants of K. pneumoniae or P. aeruginosa were 0-6.7%, 40.0-63.3%, and 46.7-90.0%, respectively, for PMB alone, CFP-AVI alone, and PMB combined with CFP-AVI; the combination therapy increased the rate by 6.7-33.3% (P < 0.05, n = 6), compared to CFP-AVI monotherapy. It is concluded that PMB combined with CFP-AVI exhibits effective anti-biofilm activities against PMB-resistant K. pneumoniae and P. aeruginosa both in vitro and in vivo, and thus may be a promising therapeutic strategy to treat biofilm-related infections.
细菌生物膜常形成于医疗器械上,由于其具有更高的抗微生物药物耐药性,可能导致治疗失败。头孢吡肟-阿维巴坦(CFP-AVI)与多粘菌素 B(PMB)联合使用时,对铜绿假单胞菌(P. aeruginosa)和肺炎克雷伯菌(K. pneumoniae)具有强大的活性。然而,其在生物膜相关感染中的疗效尚不清楚。本研究旨在评估 PMB 联合 CFP-AVI 对 PMB 耐药的革兰氏阴性菌生物膜相关感染的疗效。选择了五株已知对 PMB 耐药且易形成生物膜的肺炎克雷伯菌菌株和三株铜绿假单胞菌菌株进行评估。药敏试验结果表明,这 8 株菌形成的生物膜的最小生物膜抑制浓度和清除浓度显著高于抗生素对浮游细胞的最小抑菌浓度。生物膜形成抑制和清除试验表明,PMB 联合 CFP-AVI 不仅可以抑制生物膜的形成,而且可以有效清除已形成的成熟生物膜。在改良的体外药代动力学/药效学生物膜模型中,CFP-AVI 单药治疗对七株菌的生物膜表现出抑菌或有效活性,而 PMB 单药治疗在 72 小时内无任何活性。然而,PMB 联合 CFP-AVI 在 72 小时时对所有菌株的生物膜均表现出杀菌活性。在体内大蜡螟感染模型中,单独使用 PMB、CFP-AVI 或 PMB 联合 CFP-AVI 处理铜绿假单胞菌或肺炎克雷伯菌生物膜植入物感染的幼虫 7 天后的存活率分别为 0-6.7%、40.0-63.3%和 46.7-90.0%,与 CFP-AVI 单药治疗相比,联合治疗组的存活率提高了 6.7-33.3%(P<0.05,n=6)。因此,PMB 联合 CFP-AVI 对体外和体内的 PMB 耐药的肺炎克雷伯菌和铜绿假单胞菌生物膜具有有效的抗生物膜活性,因此可能是治疗生物膜相关感染的一种有前途的治疗策略。