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Strongly Bactericidal All-Oral β-Lactam Combinations for the Treatment of Mycobacterium abscessus Lung Disease

Dereje A. Negatu, Matthew Zimmerman, Véronique Dartois, Thomas Dick

2022Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy29 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

against Mycobacterium abscessus with and without the bioactive form of the oral β-lactamase inhibitor avibactam ARX1796. Sulopenem was equally active without avibactam, while tebipenem, cefuroxime, and amoxicillin required avibactam for optimal activity. Systematic pairwise combination of the four β-lactams revealed strong bactericidal synergy for each of sulopenem, tebipenem, and cefuroxime combined with amoxicillin in the presence of avibactam. These all-oral β-lactam combinations warrant clinical evaluation.

Topics & Concepts

Mycobacterium abscessusMicrobiologyLactamLung diseaseMedicineAntibacterial agentAntibioticsBeta-lactamMycobacteriumLungBiologyChemistryTuberculosisInternal medicinePathologyStereochemistryMycobacterium research and diagnosisTuberculosis Research and EpidemiologyInfectious Diseases and Mycology