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. 1988 Apr;32(4):454–457. doi: 10.1128/aac.32.4.454

Early stages of in vitro killing curve of LY146032 and vancomycin for Staphylococcus aureus.

J P Flandrois 1, G Fardel 1, G Carret 1
PMCID: PMC172200  PMID: 2837137

Abstract

The early stages of the time-killing curves of vancomycin and LY146032 have been studied, by use of short sampling intervals, for three strains of Staphylococcus aureus. Both vancomycin and LY146032 killed S. aureus, but the time-killing curves differed: the effect of vancomycin was slow, limited, and not related to the concentration of the drug, whereas that of LY146032 was rapid, extensive, and related to concentration. When strains ATCC 25923 and CIP 6525 were exposed to LY146032, the population decreased exponentially with time. The killing rate was constant and linked to the concentration by a Michaelis-Menten relationship. The maximum killing rate and the affinity constant of LY146032, estimated from the data transformed by the Lineweaver-Burk method, differed for the two strains. The concentration of the antibiotic at which killing theoretically begins (estimated by linear regression using the logarithm of the concentration) is of the same magnitude as the MIC of LY146032, which indicates the pure bactericidal mode of action of the drug. S. aureus ATCC 12600 was more resistant to the bactericidal effect of the two drugs, and its killing curve did not conform to the model described here.

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