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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, March 2004, p. 1043-1046, Vol. 48, No. 3
0066-4804/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AAC.48.3.1043-1046.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Inhibitors of Antibiotic Efflux in Resistant Enterobacter aerogenes and Klebsiella pneumoniae Strains

Jacqueline Chevalier,1 Jérôme Bredin,1 Abdallah Mahamoud,2 Monique Malléa,1 Jacques Barbe,2 and Jean-Marie Pagès1*

EA2197, Faculté de Médecine,1 GERCTOP, UMR6009 CNRS, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université de la Méditerranée, 13385 Marseille Cedex 05, France2

Received 12 September 2003/ Returned for modification 4 November 2003/ Accepted 29 November 2003

In Enterobacter aerogenes and Klebsiella pneumoniae, efflux provides efficient extrusion of antibiotics and contributes to the multidrug resistance phenotype. One of the alkoxyquinoline derivatives studied here, 2,8-dimethyl-4-(2'-pyrrolidinoethyl)-oxyquinoline, restores noticeable drug susceptibility to resistant clinical strains. Analyses of energy-dependent chloramphenicol efflux indicate that this compound inhibits the efflux pump mechanism and improves the activity of structurally unrelated antibiotics on multidrug-resistant E. aerogenes and K. pneumoniae isolates.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: EA2197, Faculté de Médecine, 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13385 Marseille Cedex 5, France. Phone: (33) 4 91 32 45 87. Fax: (33) 4 91 32 46 06. E-mail: Jean-Marie.PAGES{at}medecine.univ-mrs.fr.

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, March 2004, p. 1043-1046, Vol. 48, No. 3
0066-4804/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AAC.48.3.1043-1046.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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