Efficacy of telavancin, a lipoglycopeptide antibiotic, in experimental models of Gram-positive infection.

Abstract

Telavancin is a parenteral lipoglycopeptide antibiotic with a dual mechanism of action contributing to bactericidal activity against multidrug-resistant Gram-positive pathogens. It has been approved for the treatment of complicated skin and skin structure infections due to susceptible Gram-positive bacteria and hospital-acquired/ventilator-associated bacterial pneumonia due to Staphylococcus aureus when other alternatives are unsuitable. Telavancin has been demonstrated to be efficacious in multiple animal models of soft tissue, cardiac, systemic, lung, bone, brain and device-associated infections involving clinically relevant Gram-positive pathogens, including methicillin-resistant S. aureus, glycopeptide-intermediate S. aureus, heterogeneous vancomycin-intermediate S. aureus and daptomycin non-susceptible methicillin-resistant S. aureus. The AUC0-24h/MIC ratio is the primary pharmacodynamically-linked pharmacokinetic parameter. The preclinical data for telavancin supports further investigative clinical evaluation of its efficacy in additional serious infections caused by susceptible Gram-positive pathogens.

• Authors: Sharath S Hegde, James W Janc
• Journal: Expert review of anti-infective therapy (Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther) Vol. 12 Issue 12 Pg. 1463-75 (Dec 2014) ISSN: 1744-8336 [Electronic] England
• PMID: 25382700 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Review)

Chemical References

• Aminoglycosides
• Anti-Bacterial Agents
• Lipoglycopeptides
• telavancin

Topics

• Aminoglycosides (pharmacology, therapeutic use)
• Animals
• Anti-Bacterial Agents (pharmacology, therapeutic use)
• Disease Models, Animal
• Drug Resistance, Bacterial (drug effects)
• Drug Resistance, Multiple (drug effects)
• Gram-Positive Bacteria (drug effects)
• Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections (drug therapy)
• Lipoglycopeptides
• Mice