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ANNALS OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND ANTIMICROBIALS
Volume 8, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BIOMED CENTRAL LTD
DOI: 10.1186/1476-0711-8-28
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- Division of Cancer Treatment, Diagnosis and Centers, National Cancer Institute, DHHS
- Arizona Biomedical Research Commission
- Robert B. Dalton Endowment Fund
- NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE [R01CA090441, R56CA090441] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Background: Staphylococcus aureus and S. epidermidis biofilms differ in structure, growth and regulation, and thus the high-throughput method of evaluating biofilm susceptibility that has been published for S. epidermidis cannot be applied to S. aureus without first evaluating the assay's reproducibility and reliability with S. aureus biofilms. Methods: Staphylococcus aureus biofilms were treated with eleven approved antibiotics, lysostaphin, or Conflikt (R), exposed to the oxidation reduction indicator Alamar blue, and reduction relative to untreated controls was determined visually and spectrophotometrically. The minimum biofilm inhibitory concentration (MBIC) was defined as = 50% Alamar blue reduction and a purple/ blue well 60 min after the addition of Alamar blue. Because all of the approved antibiotics had MBICs > 128 mu g/ml (most > 2048 mu g/ml), lysostaphin and Conflikt (R), with relatively low MBICs, were used to correlate Alamar blue reduction with 2,3-bis(2-methoxy-4-nitro-5-sulfophenyl)-2Htetrazolium-5-carboxanilide (XTT) reduction and viable counts (CFU/ml) for S. aureus ATCC 29213 and three clinical isolates. Alamar blue's stability and lack of toxicity allowed CFU/ml to be determined from the same wells as Alamar blue absorbances. Results: Overall, Alamar blue reduction had excellent correlation with XTT reduction and with CFU/ml. For ATCC 29213 and two clinical isolates treated with lysostaphin or Conflikt (R), Alamar blue reduction had excellent correlation with XTT reduction (r = 0.93-0.99) and with CFU/ml (r = 0.92-0.98). For one of the clinical isolates, the results were moderately correlated for Conflikt r (r = 0.76, Alamar blue vs. XTT; r = 0.81, Alamar blue vs. CFU/ml) and had excellent correlation for lysostaphin (r = 0.95, Alamar blue vs. XTT; r = 0.97, Alamar blue vs. CFU/ml). Conclusion: A reliable, reproducible method for evaluating biofilm susceptibility was successfully applied to S. aureus biofilms. The described method provides researchers with a simple, nontoxic, relatively inexpensive, high throughput measure of viability after drug treatment. A standardized biofilm Alamar blue assay should greatly increase the rate of discovery of S. aureus biofilm specific agents.
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