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Pharmacodynamics of colistin and fosfomycin: a ‘treasure trove’ combination combats KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae
Author(s) -
Miao Zhao,
Zackery P. Bulman,
Justin R. Lenhard,
Michael J. Satlin,
Barry N. Kreiswirth,
Thomas J. Walsh,
Amanda Marrocco,
Phillip J. Bergen,
Roger L. Nation,
Jian Li,
Jing Zhang,
Brian T. Tsuji
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124
H-Index - 194
eISSN - 1460-2091
pISSN - 0305-7453
DOI - 10.1093/jac/dkx070
Subject(s) - fosfomycin , colistin , klebsiella pneumoniae , pharmacodynamics , microbiology and biotechnology , antibiotics , pharmacology , medicine , biology , pharmacokinetics , escherichia coli , biochemistry , gene
KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae are an emerging public health problem around the globe. We defined the combinatorial pharmacodynamics and ability to suppress resistance of two 'old' antibiotics, fosfomycin and colistin, in time-kill experiments and hollow-fibre infection models (HFIM).

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