Editor-in-Chief
Hatice Kübra Elçioğlu
Vice Editors
Levent Kabasakal
Esra Tatar
Online ISSN
2630-6344
Publisher
Marmara University
Frequency
Bimonthly (Six issues / year)
Abbreviation
J.Res.Pharm.
Former Name
Marmara Pharmaceutical Journal
Journal of Research in Pharmacy
2021 , Vol 25 , Issue 5
In vitro antibacterial activity of eravacycline against multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates
1Graduate School of Health Sciences, İstanbul University, Beyazıt 34126 İstanbul, Turkey2Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, İstanbul University, Beyazıt 34116 İstanbul, Turkey DOI : 10.29228/jrp.45 The antibacterial effectiveness of eravacycline was compared with various antibiotics used in Acinetobacter therapy against multidrug-resistant (MDR) Acinetobacter baumannii strains. Antibacterial susceptibility studiea was achieved by the broth microdilution method against 52 non–duplicate, A. baumanniii strains to eravacycline, tobramycin, levofloxacin, cefepime, meropenem, and colistin. Eravacycline presented greater action than the comparators of the other group, cefepime, colistin, levofloxacin, and tobramycin. While the MIC50/90 values of eravacycline were 8/16 mg/L and those for tobramycin, levofloxacin, cefepime, meropenem, and colistin were found 256/>256, 64/>256, 256/>256, 128/>256, and 0.5/256 mg/L, respectively. As a result, the present study showed that eravacycline was a potent effective antibiotic against MDR A. baumannii. Eravacycline could be an effective new alternative for use in particular, for the treatment of this problematic organism. Keywords : Non-fermentative; tetracycline; antibacterial agent; resistant bacteria; MIC