title: Triflupromazine: a microbicide non-antibiotic compound.
abstract: The antipsychotic phenothiazine triflupromazine, possessing a methyl-thio substituent at position 10 and a fluorine moiety at position 2, exhibited significant antibacterial activity against 279 strains of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of the drug, according to the agar dilution method, was between 2 and 50 microg/ml for Staphylococcus aureus, and 5 and 100 microg/ml for shigellae and vibrios. Triflupromazine, when injected intraperitoneally into Swiss albino mice at a concentration of 30 microg/mouse (20 g), manifested a significant protection to the mice (p<0.001) when they were challenged with 50 median lethal dose (MLD) of Salmonella typhimurium NCTC 74. Moreover, there was a statistically significant reduction in the number of viable bacteria in organ homogenates and blood of mice treated with this phenothiazine compound.
authors.affiliation: Division of Microbiology, Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India. jumicrobiol@yahoo.co.in
authors.forename: Sujata G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Dastidar
authors.forename: Sanchayita
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Debnath
authors.forename: Kaushiki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mazumdar
authors.forename: Kumkum
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ganguly
authors.forename: A N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Chakrabarty
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000890:Anti-Infective Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006090:Gram-Negative Bacteria / Q000187:drug effects*; D006094:Gram-Positive Bacteria / Q000187:drug effects*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests; D012481:Salmonella Infections, Animal / Q000188:drug therapy; D012486:Salmonella typhimurium / Q000187:drug effects; D014273:Triflupromazine / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D000890:Anti-Infective Agents; D014273:Triflupromazine