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SUBMITTER: Gonzales PR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4618095 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gonzales Patrick R PR Pesesky Mitchell W MW Bouley Renee R Ballard Anna A Biddy Brent A BA Suckow Mark A MA Wolter William R WR Schroeder Valerie A VA Burnham Carey-Ann D CA Mobashery Shahriar S Chang Mayland M Dantas Gautam G
Nature chemical biology 20150914 11
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is one of the most prevalent multidrug-resistant pathogens worldwide, exhibiting increasing resistance to the latest antibiotic therapies. Here we show that the triple β-lactam combination meropenem-piperacillin-tazobactam (ME/PI/TZ) acts synergistically and is bactericidal against MRSA subspecies N315 and 72 other clinical MRSA isolates in vitro and clears MRSA N315 infection in a mouse model. ME/PI/TZ suppresses evolution of resistance in MRSA ...[more]