title: Treatment of experimental staphylococcal endocarditis due to a strain with reduced susceptibility in vitro to vancomycin: efficacy of ampicillin-sulbactam.
abstract: We evaluated several 3-day antimicrobial regimens in the treatment of experimental endocarditis caused by an oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain exhibiting intermediate susceptibility in vitro to vancomycin (VISA). Neither vancomycin alone nor trovafloxacin exhibited in vivo efficacy; addition of amikacin to vancomycin yielded a modest in vivo effect. In contrast, the combination of ampicillin and sulbactam was highly effective in vivo, causing a mean decrease in VISA vegetation densities of >5 log(10) CFU/g versus those of untreated controls.
authors.affiliation: Division of Adult Infectious Diseases and St. John's Cardiovascular Research Center, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California 90509, USA.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Backo
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gaenger
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Burkart
authors.forename: Y L
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Chai
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Bayer
mesh_terms: D000667:Ampicillin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000818:Animals; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000382:microbiology; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests; D011817:Rabbits; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000188:drug therapy*; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000187:drug effects; D013407:Sulbactam / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014640:Vancomycin / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; C035444:sultamicillin; D014640:Vancomycin; D000667:Ampicillin; D013407:Sulbactam