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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, February 2001, p. 433-438, Vol. 45, No. 2
0066-4804/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/AAC.45.2.433-438.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Mutant Prevention Concentrations of Fluoroquinolones for Clinical Isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae

Joseph M. Blondeau,1,* Xilin Zhao,2 Glen Hansen,1 and Karl Drlica2

Departments of Clinical Microbiology, St. Paul's Hospital (Grey Nuns') and Saskatoon District Health; Department of Pathology, Royal University Hospital; and Department of Microbiology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada1; and Public Health Research Institute, New York, New York 100162

Received 30 August 2000/Returned for modification 19 October 2000/Accepted 2 November 2000

The mutant prevention concentration (MPC) represents a threshold above which the selective proliferation of resistant mutants is expected to occur only rarely. A provisional MPC (MPCpr) was defined and measured for five fluoroquinolones with clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae. Based on their potential for restricting the selection of resistant mutants, the five fluoroquinolones, in descending order, were found to be moxifloxacin > trovafloxacin > gatifloxacin > grepafloxacin > levofloxacin. For several compounds, 90% of about 90 clinical isolates that lacked a known resistance mutation had a value of MPCpr that was close to or below the serum levels that could be attained with a dosing regimen recommended by the manufacturers. Since MPCpr overestimates MPC, these data identify moxifloxacin and gatifloxacin as good candidates for determining whether MPCpr can be used as a guide for choosing and eventually administering fluoroquinolones to significantly reduce the development of resistance.


* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Clinical Microbiology, Royal University Hospital, 103 Hospital Ave., Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 0W8, Canada. Phone: (306) 655-6943. Fax: (306) 655-6947. E-mail: blondeauj{at}sdh.sk.ca.


Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, February 2001, p. 433-438, Vol. 45, No. 2
0066-4804/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/AAC.45.2.433-438.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.



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