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Laboratoire de Bacteriologie, Faculté
de Medecine Pitie-Salpetriere, Paris, France
Received 28 December 1999/Returned for modification 31 March
2000/Accepted 24 May 2000
Mycobacterium ulcerans inoculated into the footpads of
mice at 6 × 103 CFU was shown to have a generation
time of 6.5 days when estimated from weekly changes in microscopic
counts of acid-fast bacilli (AFB) and 7.5 days when calculated from
actual CFU enumerated on Lowenstein-Jensen egg medium incubated at
32°C. Footpads became swollen at week 10 (W10) after infection, and
all infected control mice were dead at W15 after infection. Daily (5 days/week) treatment with 100 mg of clarithromycin (CLR)/kg of body
weight beginning the day after infection prevented swelling of footpads
at W10. When initiation of treatment was delayed until obvious footpad swelling was observed, there was a reduction in both the increase in
AFB counts and deterioration of swollen footpads and also a prolonged
survival of the mice to W18. Mice infected in the hind footpads with
5 × 105 CFU of M. ulcerans were divided
into an untreated control group and six treatment groups that received
one of the following therapies for 8 weeks: 100 mg of CLR/kg, 25 mg of
minocycline (MIN)/kg, 50 mg of sparfloxacin (SPX)/kg, 10 mg of rifampin
(RIF)/kg, 10 mg of rifabutin (RBT)/kg, or 100 mg of amikacin (AMK)/kg.
After completion of therapy, treated animals were observed for an
additional 17 weeks. All control mice and mice treated with CLR, MIN,
or SPX exhibited swollen footpads during the observation period. In
contrast, of those animals treated with RIF, RBT, or AMK, none had
footpad swelling and all inoculated cultures done after the W17
observation remained negative. These results suggest that RIF, RBT, and
AMK may be effective in the treatment of human infection with M. ulcerans.
Since its first description in
Australia in 1948 by MacCallum and others (10), the
Bairnsdale ulcer, subsequently named the Buruli ulcer, is currently
reported with increasing prevalence in West and Central Africa. As
described by van der Werf et al. (18), it is the third most
common mycobacterial disease in humans after tuberculosis and leprosy.
The usual clinical feature is a deep, necrotic, and painless ulcer with
typically undermined edges resulting from coalescent necrosis of the
subcutaneous fat with vascular occlusion. Large surgical excision of
the necrotic tissue followed by skin grafting is, at present, the only
treatment (18). The responsible organism is a slowly growing
acid-fast and alcohol-fast mycobacterial species, Mycobacterium
ulcerans. It grows at an optimal temperature of 32°C and is
known to be resistant to most antituberculosis and antileprosy drugs
(18).
Experimental growth of M. ulcerans in immunocompetent mice
has been studied extensively by Fenner (3). After
intravenous, intraperitoneal, or intranasal infection with
104 to 106 CFU of M. ulcerans,
disseminated skin lesions developed within the ensuing 10 to 24 weeks.
In contrast, when the organisms were injected into the hind footpads,
the lesions remained localized in the footpads, which subsequently
became inflamed, swollen, and finally ulcerated after 3 to 6 weeks,
depending upon the size of the inoculum. Whatever the route of
infection, the larger the inoculum, the more rapid the development of
lesions. The division time of M. ulcerans was estimated by
Fenner to be 3 to 4 days (3).
The objective of the present study was to apply the Fenner mouse
footpad model to establish the kinetics of growth of M. ulcerans and to determine the impact of different antimicrobial
agents on the growth of the organism. Because clarithromycin (CLR)
recently has been demonstrated by Portaels et al. to have in vitro
activity against M. ulcerans (13) and also has
demonstrated activity against Mycobacterium avium and
Mycobacterium leprae in mice and humans (1, 5, 7, 8,
9), priority was given to testing the in vivo activity of CLR.
When CLR exhibited only limited bacteriostatic activity against
M. ulcerans in our first experiment, we decided to test the activity of two rifamycin derivatives (rifampin [RIF] and rifabutin [RBT]), amikacin (AMK), minocycline (MIN), and sparfloxacin (SPX) (the most active antimycobacterial fluoroquinolone). For this purpose,
we used the kinetic method designed by C. C. Shepard for testing
the activity of antileprosy drugs in the footpads of mice
(14).
First experiment.
The Cu001 strain of M. ulcerans
we used was isolated from a mouse footpad that had been inoculated with
material from a Buruli ulcer excised from a patient in Adzopé,
Ivory Coast, in June 1996. The method of isolation was adapted from the
methods developed by Shepard and McRae for the inoculation of M. leprae in the footpad of the mouse (16) and the
counting of M. leprae organisms (15). Briefly,
5 × 104 acid-fast bacilli (AFB) harvested from the
skin ulcer were inoculated into both hind footpads of Swiss mice. Three
months later, M. ulcerans was harvested from the swollen
footpads, and subcultured on Lowenstein-Jensen medium, and incubated at
32°C for 12 weeks. Colonies were subcultured in Dubos broth
(Diagnostic Pasteur, Paris, France) at 32°C for 4 weeks. The
turbidity of the resulting culture was adjusted with normal saline to
match that of a 1-mg (wet weight)/ml suspension of Mycobacterium
bovis BCG, equivalent to a McFarland number 1 standard
(6), and was further diluted up to 10
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Activities of Several Antimicrobials against
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2 mg/ml
for mouse infection.
(i) MIC of CLR.
The MIC of CLR was determined on
Lowenstein-Jensen medium (pH 7.2) containing twofold dilutions of CLR
ranging from 64 to 0.125 µg/ml. The M. ulcerans suspension
was adjusted to 1 mg/ml, serial 10-fold dilutions were made up to
105 mg/ml, and 0.1-ml volumes of the 101,
103, and 105-mg/ml suspensions were plated
in triplicate on both drug-free (control) and drug-containing media.
The MIC was defined as the lowest drug concentration that inhibited
more than 99% of the bacterial growth observed on the drug-free medium
after incubation at 32°C for 4 months (13).
(ii) Mouse model, infection, and treatment. A total of 115 4-week-old female Swiss mice (Janvier Breeding Center, Le Genest-Saint-Isle, France) weighing 18 to 20 g were used. Before infection with M. ulcerans, the mice were housed in the animal facility for 1 week. Each mouse was infected in both hind footpads with 6 × 103 CFU of M. ulcerans in a volume of 0.03 ml (14).
The day after infection (D1), five mice were sacrificed (yielding 10 footpads) to establish baseline values of AFB and CFU counts. The remaining 110 mice were allocated randomly to three groups: a control group of 60 mice and two treatment groups of 25 mice each. CLR was administered orally to the first treatment group by esophageal cannula (gavage), five times weekly from D1 to week 10 (W10), in a dosage of 100 mg/kg (0.2 to 0.3 ml of the 10-mg/ml stock solution, according to body weight). The second treatment group began the same oral gavage with CLR only after the hind footpads became swollen (at W10) and were kept on therapy up to W18.(iii) Assessment of M. ulcerans growth. The growth of M. ulcerans in the footpads of mice was assessed in terms of footpad swelling and AFB and CFU counts. Mortality of infected mice and footpad swelling were recorded on a weekly basis. AFB and CFU counts were performed every 2 weeks on 6 to 10 footpads.
(iv) Statistical analysis.
Results were analyzed by the
Student t test and Fischer's exact probability
correlations. P values were two tailed, and a value of
P 
0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Second experiment. In the second experiment, the activity of the following compounds was tested against strain Cu001 of M. ulcerans: CLR (Abbott), AMK (Bristol-Myers Squibb, Paris, France), RIF (Marion Merrel-Dow, Neuilly, France), RBT (Farmitalia-Carlo Erba, Rueil, France), MIN (Lederle, Oullins, France), and SPX (Rhone DPC Europe, Anthony, France). As in the first experiment, all drug solutions except AMK were made in 0.05% agar-containing distilled water at the desired concentrations. AMK was diluted in normal saline. The stock solutions were prepared weekly and stored at 4°C. All drugs were provided by their manufacturers.
(i) Infection, treatment, and assessment of effectiveness. One hundred four female Swiss mice, aged 4 to 6 weeks, were infected in both hind footpads with 0.03 ml of a bacterial suspension containing 5 × 105 AFB of M. ulcerans. On D1 and D7 (W1) after infection in the second experiment, five mice were sacrificed (yielding 10 footpads) to establish baseline values of AFB counts in the footpads. The 94 remaining mice were allocated randomly to a control group of 22 mice and six treatment groups of 12 mice each to receive the following treatments given 5 days a week: CLR at 100 mg/kg; AMK at 100 mg/kg; RIF at 10 mg/kg; RBT at 10 mg/kg; MIN at 25 mg/kg; and SPX at 50 mg/kg. Drugs were given for 8 weeks by gavage, except AMK, which was injected subcutaneously. After cessation of treatment, the mice were kept under observation for 17 additional weeks. The activity of each drug was assessed in terms of inhibition of microbial growth as determined by comparing the growth curves of M. ulcerans in each of the treated groups with that in the untreated control group. If growth inhibition induced by treatment with a given drug was greater timewise than the duration of treatment itself, i.e., 8 weeks, the drug was considered to have bactericidal activity. The longer the period of inhibition, the more bactericidal the drug (14).
Every week for 26 weeks, the mice were examined for swelling of footpads. As soon as swelling was evident, the mouse was sacrificed, and an AFB count in the footpad was performed to confirm the growth of M. ulcerans. At the end of the experiment, i.e., 26 weeks, all surviving mice were sacrificed, and AFB and CFU counts were performed for each inoculated footpad.(ii) Statistical analysis.
Survival analysis, with the
swollen footpad as the measurement, was done by the Kaplan-Meier method
(12). If a mouse had only a single swollen hind footpad, the
companion normal footpad was censored at the time of the sacrifice. The
log rank test was used to determine the level of statistical
significance when comparing survival curves of the different treatment
groups with the control group. P values were two tailed, and
a value of P 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
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First experiment. (i) MIC of CLR. The MIC of CLR for the Cu001 M. ulcerans strain tested on Lowenstein-Jensen medium was 0.12 µg/ml, similar to that already reported (13).
(ii) Mortality. Before W10, no control mice died. Between W10 and W12, 2 mice (5%) died, and between W12 and W14, 21 mice (67%) died. At W15, all control mice were dead.
Among mice treated with CLR from D1 to W10 there were no deaths, but as five animals were sacrificed every 2 weeks from W2 to W10 for AFB and CFU counts, there were no mice still alive on completion of treatment. Among mice started on treatment with CLR at W10 after swelling of the footpads had occurred, there was no spontaneous death between W10 and W18. But 9 out of the 10 remaining mice died between W18 and W19. Compared to control mice, the mice started on CLR at W10 survived three additional weeks.(iii) Footpad lesions. All control mice had swollen footpads at W10. By W11, the swelling involved the entire foot, and by W12 the swelling was progressing up the leg.
No swelling developed in those mice treated with CLR from D1 to W10. In mice started on CLR only at W10, there was no improvement of the swollen footpads, but the ultimate deterioration of the foot and involvement of the leg was slowed compared to that in controls.(iv) Enumeration of AFB in footpads.
In the control mice, no
AFB were detected before W4. At W6, the number of AFB was above the
limit of detection (4.6 log10) in 2 out of 10 footpads (4.9 log10 in both footpads). At W8, the AFB counts were 4.9, 4.9, and 5.6 log10 in 3 footpads and below the limit of
detection in 3 other footpads. At W10 and W12, all footpads were AFB
positive, the median AFB count per footpad being 5.7 and 6.5 log10, respectively. At W14, the median AFB count was 6.2 log10, but the deteriorating footpads were massively
superinfected with Staphylococcus aureus. Taking into
account the AFB counts between W6 and W12, an exponential regression
curve [AFB (log10) = 2.6 + 0.32 × W, where
W is the week after infection] was drawn, of which the slope was 0.32 (95% confidence interval [CI95], 0.27 to 0.38). From
this curve (Fig. 1), the generation time
of M. ulcerans was estimated at 6.5 days (CI95,
5.5 to 7.7 days).
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(v) Enumeration of CFU in footpads. In the control mice, visible colonies of M. ulcerans appeared by the third month, and the final CFU counts were performed after 4 months of incubation at 32°C. The median CFU counts did not increase between D1 and W2, 1.8 log10 (1.1 to 2.3) and 1.7 log10 (1.6 to 2.0), respectively. Thereafter the median CFU counts increased to 2.2, 3.7, 3.9, and 4.9 log10 at W4, W6, W8, and W10, respectively. After W10, all cultures were superinfected with S. aureus, and M. ulcerans CFU counts were no longer feasible. The slope of the growth curve drawn from the CFU counts between D1 and W10 was 0.28 (CI95, 0.19 to 0.35), which is not statistically different from the slope of the AFB curve of M. ulcerans in control mice (P = 0.75). From this curve (Fig. 1), the generation time of M. ulcerans was estimated at 7.5 days (CI95, 6 to 10.5 days), which is not statistically different from the estimated generation time as determined by the AFB curve.
In mice treated with CLR from D1 to W10, the CFU counts did not increase during the first 4 weeks of treatment, but they slowly increased to reach 2.1, 2.3, and 3.5 log10 CFU per footpad at W6, W8, and W10, respectively. A comparison of the growth curve of M. ulcerans CFU in the control mice with the growth curve of M. ulcerans CFU in the CLR-treated mice is shown in Fig. 3. Although the slope of the curve was 0.14 (CI95, 0.08 to 0.21), suggesting a bacteriostatic activity of CLR against M. ulcerans, the difference between the slopes of the growth curves for control and in CLR-treated mice was not statistically significant (P = 0.45).
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Second experiment. (i) Footpad lesions.
The footpads of mice
were examined once weekly during the 8-week course of treatment as well
as during the 17 weeks after completion of treatment. In the
AMK-treated group, one mouse died from an accident caused by the
injection of the drug. Swelling of footpads appeared at W5 in the
controls, at W8 in the MIN- and SPX-treated mice, and at W10 in the
CLR-treated mice. Swelling of 50% of footpads was recorded by 15 weeks
(CI95, 13 to 17) in control mice, 18 weeks
(CI95, 12 to 24) in MIN-treated mice, 21 weeks
(CI95, 20 to 22) in the SPX-treated mice, and 22 weeks
(CI95, 20 to 24) in the CLR-treated mice (Fig.
4). In the RIF-, RBT-, and AMK-treated
mice, no footpad swelling occurred during the 26 weeks of the
experiment. The difference between the mice treated with the latter
three drugs and the control mice was highly significant (P < 0.001), and this difference suggested a bactericidal activity of these drugs against M. ulcerans. The temporal suppression
of footpad swelling induced by CLR and SPX (compared to controls) was
statistically significant (P = 0.002 and 0.008, respectively). But because the suppression was less than 8 weeks (the
duration of treatment) of that observed in controls, it suggested that both drugs had only a bacteriostatic activity against M. ulcerans. For MIN, the suppression of growth was not significant
(P = 0.18).
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(ii) AFB and CFU counts in footpads. For all swollen footpads from control mice and from mice treated with CLR, SPX, or MIN, the AFB counts were above 5 × 106, indicating that the inoculated organisms had actively multiplied. Since no footpad swelling occurred during the 26 weeks of the experiment in the RIF-, RBT-, and AMK-treated mice, AFB and CFU counts were performed for the still-normal-appearing footpads of these mice at W26. Microscopic AFB counts were negative in all footpads from AMK-treated mice, positive in only 2 (4.9 and 5.07 log10) of 14 footpads from RIF-treated mice, and positive in only 2 (5.07 and 5.3 log10) of 14 footpads from RBT-treated mice. All cultures performed from the normal-appearing footpads harvested at W26 remained negative.
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After infection of the mouse footpad with 6 × 103 CFU of M. ulcerans, the generation time of M. ulcerans was estimated at 6.5 days (CI95, 5.5 to 7.7) from the AFB counts and at 7.5 days (CI95, 6 to 10.5) from the CFU counts. These times are a little longer than but consistent with that reported by Fenner, who estimated the generation time of M. ulcerans at 4 days (3). One possible explanation for the difference between our findings and Fenner's data might be the poor viability of the inoculated organisms in our experiment. This is suggested by the fact that the AFB counts were 10 times higher than the CFU counts.
Obstacles to the assessment of the M. ulcerans growth in mice were the low growth rate of the organism and the ultimate superinfection of the deteriorating footpads with S. aureus soon after the swelling had occurred. Although we tried, we were not successful in developing a selective culture medium for M. ulcerans that contained drugs active against S. aureus. Consequently, to overcome both obstacles, we focused our observations on the detection of the footpad swelling and on the AFB counts. The latter were always above 105 when the footpads began to swell and above 5 × 106 when the footpad swelling had progressed to the point that the corresponding legs became inflamed. The observation of footpad swelling combined with an AFB count greater than 5 × 106 might, therefore, be used as a surrogate marker of M. ulcerans growth in the mouse footpad.
Of clinical interest was the in vivo activity of CLR against M. ulcerans in the mouse. When administered at a daily dose of 100 mg/kg (that is equipotent to 1 g per day in humans [19]), CLR had an obvious bacteriostatic activity: the growth of M. ulcerans in mice treated with CLR was significantly delayed compared to that in control mice. However, since the activity was not bactericidal, one may question the potential or practical value of CLR in the treatment of M. ulcerans infection in humans.
More important from the point of view of treatment of human disease are the bactericidal activities exhibited by RIF, RBT, and AMK against M. ulcerans, as demonstrated in the second experiment. When mice infected with M. ulcerans were treated for 8 weeks with RIF alone, RBT alone, or AMK alone, no footpad swelling occurred either during treatment or during the 4-month period following completion of treatment. In contrast, swelling of footpads occurred during experimental treatment of some mice with SPX or MIN, and after completion of treatment in all mice treated with CLR, SPX, or MIN. In addition, at the end of the 4-month follow-up period, all footpads from mice treated with RIF, RBT, or AMK remained culture-negative, suggesting a strong bactericidal activity of all three drugs against M. ulcerans. These findings are in agreement with previous reports. Havel and Pattyn (4) showed that in mice infected with 103 M. ulcerans and then subjected to RIF given at different daily doses, frequencies, and durations of treatment, some were apparently cured by the treatments. No footpad swelling occurred during the 4-month period of observation following completion of 4 months of treatment with either RIF at 10 mg/kg given 5 days a week or 15 mg/kg given 5 or 3 days a week. Stanford and Phillips (17) also reported the value of RIF used alone or in combination and beginning 2 or 5 weeks after mice had been injected in the footpads and obvious swelling had occurred. Treatment was continued for 1 or 3 months. Each 1-month regimen resulted in local improvement, but the disease relapsed 6 to 8 weeks after completion of therapy. In contrast, all 3-month regimens produced apparent cure. The combination of RIF with clofazimine or pyrimethamine plus sulfadoxine was not more effective than RIF alone.
The activity of AMK against M. ulcerans has not been previously reported. However, another aminoglycoside, streptomycin (SM), given at the daily dose of 3 mg (150 mg/kg of body weight), has been tested against M. ulcerans in the footpads of mice (2, 11). Treatments were started the day after infection and given for 7 to 16 weeks. SM exhibited an antimicrobial activity comparable to that exhibited by AMK in our experiment.
In conclusion, both rifamycin derivatives (RIF and RBT) and AMK are likely to be of interest for the treatment of M. ulcerans infection in humans. SM is likely to be as active as AMK.
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This work was supported by the Association Française Raoul Follereau.
We thank Henri Asse and Henri Kouakou from the Raoul Follereau Institute, Adzopé, Ivory Coast, for providing the strain of M. ulcerans and George Kubica for his editorial assistance. We also thank Roselyne Marc and Micheline Rousselet for their technical assistance.
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* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratoire de Bacteriologie, Faculte de Medecine Pitie-Salpetriere, 91 Boulevard de l'Hopital, 75634 Paris cedex 13, France. Phone: (33) 1 40 77 97 46. Fax: (33) 1 45 82 75 77. E-mail: bacteriologie{at}chups.jussieu.fr.
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