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- Title
The Efficacy of the Quorum Sensing Inhibitor FS8 and Tigecycline in Preventing Prosthesis Biofilm in an Animal Model of Staphylococcal Infection.
- Authors
Simonetti, Oriana; Cirioni, Oscar; Mocchegiani, Federico; Cacciatore, Ivana; Silvestri, Carmela; Baldassarre, Leonardo; Orlando, Fiorenza; Castelli, Pamela; Provinciali, Mauro; Vivarelli, Marco; Fornasari, Erika; Giacometti, Andrea; Offidani, Annamaria
- Abstract
We investigated the efficacy of tigecycline and FS8, alone or combined, in preventing prosthesis biofilm in a rat model of staphylococcal vascular graft infection. Graft infections were established in the back subcutaneous tissue of adult male Wistar rats by implantation of Dacron prostheses followed by topical inoculation with 2 X 107 colony-forming units of Staphylococcus aureus, strain Smith diffuse. The study included a control group, a contaminated group that did not receive any antibiotic prophylaxis, and three contaminated groups that received: (i) intraperitoneal tigecycline, (ii) FS8-soaked graft, and (iii) tigecycline plus FS8-soaked graft, respectively. Each group included 15 animals. The infection burden was evaluated by using sonication and quantitative agar culture. Moreover, an in vitro binding-study was performed to quantify the how much FS8 was coated to the surface of the prosthesis. Tigecycline, combined with FS8, against the adherent bacteria showed MICs (2.00 mg/L) and MBCs (4.00 mg/L) four-fold lower with respect to tigecycline alone in in vitro studies. The rat groups treated with tigecycline showed the lowest bacterial numbers (4.4 X 104 ± 1.2 X 104 CFU/mL). The FS8-treated group showed a good activity and significant differences compared to control group with bacterial numbers of 6.8 X 104 ± 2.0 X 104 CFU/mL. A stronger inhibition of bacterial growth was observed in rats treated with a combined FS8 and tigecycline therapy than in those that were singly treated with bacterial numbers of 10¹ CFU/mL graft. In conclusion, the ability to affect biofilm formation as well, its property to be an antibiotic enhancer suggests FS8 as alternative or additional agent to use in conjunction with conventional antimicrobial for prevention of staphylococcal biofilm related infection.
- Subjects
STAPHYLOCOCCAL disease treatment; QUORUM sensing; BIOFILMS; VASCULAR grafts; COMPLICATIONS of prosthesis; LABORATORY rats
- Publication
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2013, Vol 14, Issue 8, p16321
- ISSN
1661-6596
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ijms140816321