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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF VASCULAR AND ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY
Volume 40, Issue 6, Pages 817-822Publisher
W B SAUNDERS CO LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejvs.2010.08.009
Keywords
Lipopeptides; Daptomycin; Rifampin; Vascular graft infection; Bacterial biofilm
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- Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research [PRIN 2007]
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Objective: To investigate the efficacy of daptomycin and rifampin either alone or in combination in preventing prosthesis biofilm in a rat model of staphylococcal vascular graft infection. Design: Prospective, randomised, controlled animal study. Materials: Graft infections were established in the back subcutaneous tissue of adult male Wistar rats by implantation of Dacron prostheses followed by topical inoculation with 2 x 107 colony forming units of Staphylococcus aureus, strain Smith diffuse. Methods: The study included a control group, a contaminated group that did not receive any antibiotic prophylaxis and three contaminated groups that received intra-peritoneal daptomycin, rifampin-soaked graft and daptomycin plus rifampin-soaked graft, respectively. Each group included 15 animals. The infection burden was evaluated by using sonication and quantitative agar culture. Moreover, an in vitro antibiotic susceptibility assay for S. aureus biofilms was performed to elucidate the same activity. Results: When tested alone, daptomycin and rifampin showed good efficacies. Their combination showed efficacies significantly higher than that of each single compound. The in vitro studies showed that Minimum Inhibitory Concentration and Minimum Bactericidal Concentration values for daptomycin were lower in presence of rifampin. Daptonnycin prevented the emergence of rifampin resistance. Conclusion: Daptomycin is an important candidate for prevention of staphylococcal biofilm-related infection and rifampin could serve as an interesting anti-staphylococcal antibiotic enhancer. (C) 2010 European Society for Vascular Surgery. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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