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  • Titel: PYED-1 Overcomes Colistin Resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii
  • Beteiligte: Stabile, Maria; Esposito, Anna; Iula, Vita Dora; Guaragna, Annalisa; De Gregorio, Eliana
  • Erschienen: MDPI AG, 2023
  • Erschienen in: Pathogens, 12 (2023) 11, Seite 1323
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.3390/pathogens12111323
  • ISSN: 2076-0817
  • Schlagwörter: Infectious Diseases ; Microbiology (medical) ; General Immunology and Microbiology ; Molecular Biology ; Immunology and Allergy
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:p>Antibiotic resistance has become more and more widespread over the recent decades, becoming a major global health problem and causing colistin to be increasingly used as an antibiotic of last resort. Acinetobacter baumannii, an opportunistic pathogen that has rapidly evolved into a superbug exhibiting multidrug-resistant phenotypes, is responsible for a large number of hospital infection outbreaks. With the intensive use of colistin, A. baumannii resistance to colistin has been found to increase significantly. In previous work, we identified a deflazacort derivative, PYED-1 (pregnadiene-11-hydroxy-16,17-epoxy-3,20-dione-1), which exhibits either direct-acting or synergistic activity against Gram-positive and Gram-negative species and Candida spp., including A. baumannii. The aim of this study was to evaluate the antibacterial activity of PYED-1 in combination with colistin against both A. baumannii planktonic and sessile cells. Furthermore, the cytotoxicity of PYED-1 with and without colistin was assessed. Our results show that PYED-1 and colistin can act synergistically to produce a strong antimicrobial effect against multidrug-resistant populations of A. baumannii. Interestingly, our data reveal that PYED-1 is able to restore the efficacy of colistin against all colistin-resistant A. baumannii isolates. This drug combination could achieve a much stronger antimicrobial effect than colistin while using a much smaller dosage of the drugs, additionally eliminating the toxicity and resistance issues associated with the use of colistin.</jats:p>
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