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In vitro efficacy of antibiotics commonly used to treat human plague against intracellular Yersinia pestis.

Abstract
Yersinia pestis initiates infection as a facultative intracellular parasite in host macrophages; however, little is known about the efficacy of antibiotics commonly used to treat human plague against intracellular Y. pestis. Intracellular minimal bactericidal concentrations (MBCs) were determined using a high-throughput broth microdilution assay in which human THP-1 macrophage-like cells were infected with Y. pestis strain KIM6-2053.1+ and exposed to 2-fold serial dilutions of antibiotics for 24 h in 96-well plates. The numbers of CFU, upon which minimal bactericidal concentrations were based, were determined by counting "microcolonies" in wells of 96-well plates following lysis of tissue culture cells to release surviving Y. pestis, replica dilution, and plating in soft tryptic soy broth agar. For THP-1 cells, streptomycin and ciprofloxacin had comparable efficacies for intra- and extracellular Y. pestis, but the MBCs for chloramphenicol, gentamicin, doxycycline, and amoxicillin were two-, three-, four-, and five 2-fold serial dilutions greater, respectively, for intracellular than for extracellular Y. pestis. During the initial stage of plague, intracellular Y. pestis may be less susceptible to antibiotic killing by particular antibiotics recommended for treatment of plague, such as gentamicin or doxycycline, whereas others, such as streptomycin and ciprofloxacin, may have similar efficacies against extracellular or intracellular Y. pestis. This may be of particular importance in the selection of antibiotics for prophylactic treatment in the case of a bioterrorism event.
AuthorsJered M Wendte, Duraisamy Ponnusamy, Deanna Reiber, Jeffrey L Blair, Kenneth D Clinkenbeard
JournalAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy (Antimicrob Agents Chemother) Vol. 55 Issue 8 Pg. 3752-7 (Aug 2011) ISSN: 1098-6596 [Electronic] United States
PMID21628541 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Chemical References
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Gentamicins
  • Ciprofloxacin
  • Chloramphenicol
  • Amoxicillin
  • Doxycycline
  • Streptomycin
Topics
  • Amoxicillin (pharmacology)
  • Animals
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents (pharmacology)
  • Cell Line
  • Chloramphenicol (pharmacology)
  • Ciprofloxacin (pharmacology)
  • Doxycycline (pharmacology)
  • Gentamicins (pharmacology)
  • High-Throughput Screening Assays (methods)
  • Humans
  • Macrophages (microbiology)
  • Mice
  • Microbial Sensitivity Tests
  • Plague (drug therapy, prevention & control)
  • Streptomycin (pharmacology)
  • Yersinia pestis (drug effects, pathogenicity)

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