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Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (1994) 34, 687-696
© 1994 The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

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Postantibiotic effects and postantibiotic sub-MIC effects of benzylpenicillin on viridans streptococci isolated from patients with infective endocarditis

K. Kikuchi*, T. Enari, S. Minami, K. Haruki, Y. Shibata, H. Hasegawa, J. Katahira K. Totsuka and K. Shimizu

Department of Medicine, Tokyo Women's Medical College 8-1 Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162, Japan

Received 10 March 1994; accepted 20 June 1994

We investigated the postantibiotic effects (PAEs) and the postantibiotic sub-MIC effects of benzylpenicillin on three strains of viridans streptococci isolated from infective endocarditis patients. The PAEs of benzylpenicillin on penicillin tolerant Streptococcus sanguis TW-70 (0.4–3.9 h), penicillin tolerant S. sanguis TW-80 (0.3–6.3 h) and nontolerant Streptococcus oralis TW-186 (0.5–3.1 h) were dependent on exposure time. The PAEs were not concentration dependent for S. sanguis TW-70 and S. sanguis TW-80 above the MIC, and for S. oralis TW-186 above 16 x MIC. The antimicrobial effects of benzylpenicillin at sub-MIC concentrations were examined in bacteria pretreated with benzylpenicillin (8 x MIC) for 2h and compared with untreated bacteria. At the sub-MICs tested, the regrowth of pretreated S. oralis TW-186 cells was more prolonged than that of untreated cells and bactericidal action was seen only in pretreated cells. These effects (so-called ‘postantibiotic sub-MIC effects’) were not observed in penicillin tolerant S. sanguis TW-70. The presence of the postantibiotic sub-MIC effect may be an important factor in determining the dosing regimen for infective endocarditis.


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