scholarly journals Effect of pH on in vitro antimicrobial susceptibility of the Bacteroides fragilis group.

1997 ◽  
Vol 41 (9) ◽  
pp. 2047-2049 ◽  
Author(s):  
M E Falagas ◽  
L McDermott ◽  
D R Snydman

We studied the effect of pH (7.1, 6.3, and 5.8) on the in vitro susceptibilities of 59 isolates of Bacteroides fragilis and 60 isolates of other B. fragilis group species to trovafloxacin, ciprofloxacin, clindamycin, ampicillin-sulbactam, piperacillin-tazobactam, imipenem, and meropenem. For each agent tested the geometric mean MIC was highest at pH 5.8, intermediate at pH 6.3, and lowest at pH 7.1. The magnitude of the pH effect varied greatly among different antibiotics. These data show that an acidic pH decreases the in vitro susceptibilities of the B. fragilis group to several antibiotics.

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellie J. C. Goldstein ◽  
C. Vreni Merriam ◽  
Diane M. Citron

ABSTRACT Tedizolid’s anaerobic activity is unappreciated. In this study, it was active against all 332 anaerobic isolates tested at ≤2 μg/ml except Bilophila wadsworthia and was more active than linezolid against Bacteroides fragilis group species (MIC90, 1 μg/ml versus 2 to 4 μg/ml). Tedizolid was active against Gram-positive anaerobes (MIC90 for clostridia, 0.25 to 1 μg/ml; MIC90 for anaerobic cocci, ≤0.06 to 0.25 μg/ml). Our data coupled with clinical reports indicate that clinicians should consider its use in mixed infections where Staphylococcus aureus and anaerobes are involved.


2004 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 1034-1036 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. V. Jacobus ◽  
L. A. McDermott ◽  
R. Ruthazer ◽  
D. R. Snydman

ABSTRACT The in vitro activities of tigecycline were tested against 831 isolates of the Bacteroides fragilis group representing all of the species within the group. On a weight-to-weight basis (8 μg/ml), tigecycline was more active than clindamycin, minocycline, trovafloxacin, and cefoxitin and less active than imipenem or piperacillin-tazobactam against all isolates of the B. fragilis group. Tigecycline geometric mean MICs were statistically higher against B. distasonis than other Bacteroides species (P value of 0.0001).


Anaerobe ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 24-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice Oliveira Silva ◽  
Ana Catarina Martins Reis ◽  
Carlos Quesada-Gómez ◽  
Adriana Queiroz Pinheiro ◽  
Rosemary Souza Freire ◽  
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1996 ◽  
Vol 40 (9) ◽  
pp. 2232-2235 ◽  
Author(s):  
H M Wexler ◽  
E Molitoris ◽  
D Molitoris ◽  
S M Finegold

The antimicrobial activity of trovafloxacin for 557 strains of anaerobic bacteria was determined by the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards-approved Wadsworth agar dilution technique. The species tested included Bacteroides fragilis (n = 91), other members of the B. fragilis group (n = 130), Campylobacter gracilis (n = 15), other Bacteroides spp. (n = 16), Prevotella spp. (n = 49), Porphyromonas spp. (n = 15), Fusobacterium spp. (n = 62), Bilophila wadsworthia (n = 24), Sutterella wadsworthensis (n = 21), Clostridium spp. (n = 61), Peptostreptococcus spp. (n = 38), and gram-positive non-spore-forming rods (n = 35). Trovafloxacin inhibited all strains of B. fragilis at < or = 0.5 microgram/ml, 99% of other B. fragilis group species at < or = 2 micrograms/ml, and 96% of all anaerobes tested at < or = 2 micrograms/ml.


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