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Optimizing aminoglycoside selection for KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae with the aminoglycoside-modifying enzyme (AME) gene aac(6')-Ib.


ABSTRACT:

Objectives

KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae (KPC-Kp) isolates commonly co-harbour the aminoglycoside-modifying enzyme (AME) gene aac(6')-Ib, which encodes an AME that can confer resistance to some of the commercially available aminoglycosides. We sought to determine the influence of AAC(6')-Ib in KPC-Kp on the pharmacodynamic activity of aminoglycosides.

Methods

Six KPC-Kp clinical isolates, three with and three without aac(6')-Ib, were analysed. Using these isolates, the bacterial killing of amikacin, gentamicin and tobramycin was assessed in static time-kill experiments. The pharmacodynamic activity of the aminoglycosides was then assessed in a dynamic one-compartment infection model over 72 h using simulated human pharmacokinetics of once-daily dosing with amikacin (15 mg/kg), gentamicin (5 mg/kg) and tobramycin (5 mg/kg).

Results

At clinically relevant aminoglycoside concentrations in time-kill experiments and the dynamic one-compartment model, gentamicin was more active than amikacin or tobramycin against the isolates harbouring aac(6')-Ib. Amikacin, gentamicin and tobramycin all showed progressively reduced bacterial killing with exposure to repeated doses against most isolates in the dynamic one-compartment model. MIC values were generally not a good predictor of gentamicin pharmacodynamic activity against KPC-Kp, but were more reliable for amikacin and tobramycin.

Conclusions

Gentamicin may be preferred over amikacin or tobramycin for treatment of KPC-Kp infections. However, gentamicin MICs are not a consistent predictor of its pharmacodynamic activity and unexpected treatment failures are possible.

SUBMITTER: Butler DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7879147 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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