Journal
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY
Volume 63, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01760-18
Keywords
MIC; additive effects; broth microdilution assay; microtiter plate effects
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- NHMRC [APP631632, APP1005350, APP1045326, AP1063214, APP1059354]
- NIH [R21AI098731/R33AI098731-03]
- Wellcome Trust Seeding Drug Discovery Award [094977/Z/10/Z]
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The determination of antibiotic potency against bacterial strains by assessment of their minimum inhibitory concentration normally uses a standardized broth microdilution assay procedure developed more than 50 years ago. However, certain antibiotics require modified assay conditions in order to observe optimal activity. For example, daptomycin requires medium supplemented with Ca2+, and the lipoglycopeptides dalbavancin and oritavancin require Tween 80 to be added to the growth medium to prevent the depletion of free drug via adsorption to the plastic microplate. In this report, we examine systematically the effects of several different plate types on microdilution broth MIC values for a set of antibiotics against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, both in medium alone and in medium supplemented with the commonly used additives Tween 80, lysed horse blood, and 50% human serum. We observed very significant differences in measured MICs (up to 100-fold) for some lipophilic antibiotics, such as the Gram-positive lipoglycopeptide dalbavancin and the Gram-negative lipopeptide polymyxins, and found that non-specific binding plates can replace the need for surfactant additives. Microtiter plate types and any additives should be specified when reporting broth dilution MIC values, as results can vary dramatically for some classes of antibiotics.
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