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. 2018 Jul 23;12:2249–2257. doi: 10.2147/DDDT.S164316

Table 1.

Two antibiotic exposure simulations with daily cycling between antibiotic 1 and antibiotic 2 for 1 day and 3 day cycling protocols

Min growth rate ψmin1 Min growth rate ψmin2 Hill coefficient β Drug classification Tfix@ c =3 µg mL−1 (1 day, 3 days) Tfix@ c =10 µg mL−1 (1 day, 3 days)
−1 −1 3 Static/Static 67 hours, 102 hours 95 hours, 113 hours
−1 −3 3 Static/Cidal 67 hours, 101 hours 90 hours, 107 hours
−3 −1 3 Cidal/Static 68 hours, 101 hours 90 hours, 112 hours
−3 −3 3 Cidal/Cidal 68 hours, 101 hours 87 hours, 107 hours
−1 −1 1 Static/Static 96 hours, 115 hours 438 hours, >1,000 hours
−1 −3 1 Static/Cidal 90 hours, 110 hours 294 hours, 1,198 hours
−3 −1 1 Cidal/Static 90 hours, 115 hours 233 hours, 1,124 hours
−3 −3 1 Cidal/Cidal 85 hours, 109 hours 237 hours, 523 hours

Notes: Cidal denotes a bactericidal antibiotic, while Static denotes a bacteriostatic antibiotic. We report resistance fixation Tfix in each simulation.