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Establishment of in vitro susceptibility testing methodologies and comparative activities of piperacillin in combination with the penem {beta}-lactamase inhibitor BLI-489

  • Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2009 Feb;53(2):370-84. doi: 10.1128/AAC.01047-08.
Peter J Petersen 1 C Hal Jones Aranapakam M Venkatesan Tarek S Mansour Steven J Projan Patricia A Bradford
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  • 1 Infectious Disease Research, Wyeth Research, Pearl River, NY 10965, USA. petersp@wyeth.com
Abstract

The novel bicyclic penem inhibitor BLI-489 has demonstrated activity as an inhibitor of class A, C, and D beta-lactamases. To determine the combination of piperacillin and BLI-489 to be used in susceptibility testing that would most accurately identify susceptible and resistant isolates, a predictor panel of beta-lactamase-producing bacteria was utilized to determine the reliability of the combination of piperacillin-BLI-489 at a constant inhibitor concentration of 2 or 4 microg/ml and at ratios of 1:1, 2:1, 4:1, and 8:1. There were a number of strains that would be falsely reported as susceptible or intermediate if tested with the ratios of 1:1 and 2:1, whereas the constant concentration of 2 microg/ml of BLI-489 and the ratio of 8:1 had a tendency to overpredict resistance. Similar MICs were obtained with piperacillin-BLI-489 in a 4:1 ratio and when BLI-489 was held constant at 4 microg/ml. Based on these results, an in vitro testing methodology employing a constant concentration of 4 microg/ml BLI-489 was used to evaluate the combination of piperacillin-BLI-489 against a larger panel of recently identified clinical isolates. Approximately 55% of all of the enteric bacilli tested were nonsusceptible to piperacillin alone (MIC > or = 32 microg/ml). However, 92% of these piperacillin nonsusceptible strains were inhibited by < or =16 microg/ml piperacillin-BLI-489; in contrast, only 66% were inhibited by < or =16 microg/ml piperacillin-tazobactam. The combination of piperacillin-BLI-489 also demonstrated improved activity compared to that of piperacillin-tazobactam against the problematic extended-spectrum beta-lactamase- and AmpC-expressing strains.

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