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Abstract
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Increased emergence of bacterial resistance and the decline in newly developed antibiotics have necessitated the reintroduction of previously abandoned antimicrobial agents active against multidrug-resistant bacteria. Having never been subjected to contemporary drug development procedures, these old antibiotics require redevelopment in order to optimize therapy. This review focuses on colistin as an exemplar of a successful redevelopment process and briefly discusses two other old antibiotics, fusidic acid and fosfomycin. RECENT FINDINGS: Redevelopment of colistin led to an improved understanding of its chemistry, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, enabling important steps towards optimizing its clinical use in different patient populations. A scientifically based dosing algorithm was developed for critically ill patients, including those with renal impairment. As nephrotoxicity is a dose-limiting adverse event of colistin, rational combination therapy with other antibiotics needs to be investigated. SUMMARY: The example of colistin demonstrated that state-of-the-art analytical, microbiological and pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic methods can facilitate optimized use of old antibiotics in the clinic. Similar methods are now being applied to fosfomycin and fusidic acid in order to optimize therapy. To improve and preserve the usefulness of these antibiotics rational approaches for redevelopment need to be followed.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 626 - 633 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases |
Volume | 25 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Projects
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Targeting Superbugs: discovery and development of new broad-spectrum lipopeptide
Li, J., Dudley, M. N., Griffith, D., Hecker, S., Lomovskaya, O., Nation, R., Roberts, K., Thompson, P. & Velkov, T.
NIH - National Institutes of Health (United States of America)
1/06/12 → 31/05/17
Project: Research
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Targeting MD hetero-resistant Gram-negatives: PK/PD for rational combinations.
Nation, R., Li, J., Forrest, A., Paterson, D. & Tsuji, B. T.
NIH - National Institutes of Health (United States of America)
15/07/08 → 30/06/12
Project: Research