title: In vitro activity of daptomycin-metronidazole combinations against mixed bacterial cultures: reduced activity of metronidazole against Bacteroides species in the presence of Enterococcus faecalis.
abstract: The in vitro activity of daptomycin-metronidazole combinations against mixed cultures of gram-positive facultative cocci and strains of the Bacteroides fragilis group was investigated. Metronidazole did not influence the high activity of daptomycin against strains of Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis and Enterococcus faecalis in the absence or presence of the co-cultured Bacteroides strains. In contrast, the Enterococcus faecalis isolates protected the co-cultured Bacteroides strains against the killing effect of metronidazole, even at a concentration four- or eightfold the MIC of metronidazole. Killing curve experiments confirmed this protective effect of different isolates of Enterococcus faecalis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Microbiology, Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical School, Szeged, Hungary.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Nagy
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Werner
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Heizmann
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D001439:Bacteroides / Q000187:drug effects*; D017576:Daptomycin; D004347:Drug Interactions; D013293:Enterococcus faecalis / Q000187:drug effects*; D008795:Metronidazole / Q000494:pharmacology*; D010455:Peptides / Q000494:pharmacology; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000187:drug effects; D013212:Staphylococcus epidermidis / Q000187:drug effects
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D010455:Peptides; D008795:Metronidazole; D017576:Daptomycin