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. 2019 Mar 7;2019:7507549. doi: 10.1155/2019/7507549

Table 5.

Antibiotic resistance modulatory activity of 3-O-[β-D-xylopyranosyl-(1→4)-β-D-galactopyranosyl]-oleanolic acid (7) against MDR Gram-negative bacteria.

Antibiotics Extract
concentration
Bacteria, MIC (μg/mL) and modulating factors of compound 7 (in bracket)
ATCC8739 AG102 ATCC13048 CM64 KP55 KP63 PA124 NEA16 PBS (%)
ERY 0 128 256 256 256 256 256 256 256
MIC/2 256 (0.5)a 128 (2) S 128 (2) S 128 (2) S 64 (4) S 128 (2) S 64 (2) s 256 (1)I 75
MIC/4 256 (0.5)a 64 (4) S 128 (2) S 128 (2) S 128 (2) S 128 (2) S 64 (2) s 128 (2) S 87.5

CLX 0 256 1024 > 1024 > 1024 1024 512 > 1024 > 1024
MIC/2 512 (0.5)a > 1024 (> 1)a 1024 (1) S > 1024 (≥ 1)I 512 (2) S 128 (4) S > 1024 (≥ 1)I > 1024 (≥ 1)I 37.5
MIC/4 512 (0.5)a 1024 (1)I 1024 (1) S > 1024 (≥ 1)I 128 (8) S > 1024 (> 0.5)a > 1024 (≥ 1)I 1024 (1) S 37.5

KAN 0 16 16 < 2 16 4 64 8 64
MIC/2 128 (0.125)a 128 (0.125)a < 2 (≤ 1)I < 2 (> 8) S < 2 (> 2) S 16 (4) S 16 (0.5)a 16 (4) S 50
MIC/4 128 (0.125)a 64 (0.25)a < 2 (≤ 1)I < 2 (> 8) S < 2 (> 2) S 256 (025)a 16 (0.5)a 4 (16) S 37.5

GEN 0 32 16 16 16 256 32 128 256
MIC/2 64 (0.5)a > 256 (> 0.062)a 4 (4) S < 2 (> 8) S < 2 (128) S 16 (2) S 256 (0.5)a 4 (64) S 62.5
MIC/4 256 (0.125)a > 256 (0.062)a 4 (4) S < 2 (> 8) S < 2 (128) S 256 (0.125)a 256 (0.5)a 4 (64) S 50

DOX 0 < 1 4 16 16 4 8 64 32
MIC/2 < 1 (≤ 1)I 8 (0.5)a 16 (1)I 16 (1)I 4 (1)I 2 (4) S 32 (2) S 16 (2) S 37.5
MIC/4 4 (0.25)a 4 (1)I 16 (1)I 16 (1)I 4 (1)I 2 (4) S 32 (2) S 16 (2) S 37.5

CHL 0 2 32 16 256 64 32 256 64
MIC/2 2 (1)I 32 (1)I 16 (1)I 256 (1)I 64 (1)I 32 (1)I 256 (1)I 64 (1)I 0
MIC/4 2 (1)I 16 (2) S 16 (1)I 256 (1)I 64 (1)I 16 (2) S 256 (1)I 64 (1)I 25

NOR 0 4 8 32 32 8 8 64 32
MIC/2 64 (0.062)a 32 (0.25)a 16 (2) S 32 (1)I 64 (0.125)a 8 (1)I 32 (2) S 32 (1)I 25
MIC 4 64 (0.062)a 32 (0.25)a 32 (1)I 32 (1)I 32 (0.25)a 8 (1)I 32 (2) S 32 (1)I 12.5

CIP 0 < 0.5 1 8 8 < 0.5 1 64 8
MIC/2 2 (0.25)a 8 (0.125)a 1 (8) S 8 (1)I 8 (0.062)a 4 (0.25)a 32 (2) S 4 (2) S 37.5
MIC/4 8 (0.062)a 4 (0.25)a 2 (4) S 8 (1)I 2 (0.25)a 4 (0.25)a 32 (2) S 4 (2) S 37.5

ERY: erythromycin; CLX: cloxacillin; KAN: kanamycin; GEN: gentamycin; DOX: doxyciclin; CHL: chloramphenicol; NOR: norfloxacin; CIP: ciprofloxacin; bacterial strains: Escherichia coli (AG102, ATCC8739); Enterobacter aerogenes (ATCC13048, CM64); Klebsiella pneumoniae (KP55, KP63); P. aeruginosa PA124; Providencia stuartii NEA16; PBS: percentage of bacteria strain on which synergism has been observed. (): ameliorating factor of the antibiotics after association with compound 7; S: synergy; I: indifference; a: antagonist; values in bold: case of synergy [19, 20].