Journal article
β-Lactamase Production in Experimental Endocarditis Due to Aminoglycoside-Resistant Streptococcus faecalis
The Journal of infectious diseases, v 155(6), pp 1226-1232
Jun 1987
PMID: 3106510
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Abstract
We used a β-lactamase-producing (βL+) strain of Streptococcus faecalis that also had high levels of resistance to all aminoglycosides to induce experimental endocarditis in rats. The rats were treated for five or 10 days with procaine penicillin, vancomycin, gentamicin, rifampin, or ciprofloxacin (alone or in various combinations), or with penicillin plus clavulanic acid. The levels of penicillin in serum and vegetations declined rapidly in the βL+-infected rats treated with procaine penicillin alone, unlike the sustained levels of penicillin in either βL−-infected rats treated with procaine penicillin or βL+-infected rats treated with penicillin plus clavulanic acid. For the βL+-infected rats, the enterococcal counts in vegetations were significantly reduced (>3 log10 cfu/g) only by vancomycin and by pencillin plus clavulanic acid. The efficacy of the latter regimen probably resulted from the inhibition of penicillin inactivation by clavulanic acid in vegetations infected with the βL+ strain. Our in vivo findings document the biologic significance of β-lactamase production.
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- Title
- β-Lactamase Production in Experimental Endocarditis Due to Aminoglycoside-Resistant Streptococcus faecalis
- Creators
- Mark Ingerman - Drexel UniversityPeter G. Pitsakis - Drexel UniversityAlan Rosenberg - Medical College of Pennsylvania and the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Houston, TexasM. Trexler Hessen - Drexel UniversityElias Abrutyn - Drexel UniversityBarbara E. Murray - Internal Medicine - Infectious DiseasesMatthew E. Levison - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- The Journal of infectious diseases, v 155(6), pp 1226-1232
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Medicine (Graduate)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:A1987H341300020
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0023272318
- Other Identifier
- 991019184074304721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Immunology
- Infectious Diseases
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