Shell-vial assay: evaluation of a new technique for determining antibiotic susceptibility, tested in 13 isolates of Coxiella burnetii.
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Raoult, D
RESUMO
Coxiella burnetii is a strictly intracellular bacterium. Bacteriostatic effects have been described previously on a few isolates in embryonated eggs (A. J. Spicer, M. G. Peacock, and J. C. Williams, p. 375-383, in W. Burgdorfer and R. L. Anacker, ed., Rickettsiae and rickettsial diseases, 1981). We used the shell-vial technique (D. Raoult, G. Vestris, and M. Enea, J. Clin. Microbiol. 28:2482-2484, 1990) to determine the susceptibility of C. burnetii to amoxicillin, amikacin, erythromycin, co-trimoxazole, pefloxacin, ofloxacin, ciprofloxacin, chloramphenicol, tetracycline, doxycycline, minocycline, and rifampin antibiotics at a single dilution. Human embryonic lung fibroblast monolayers in shell vials were seeded with 13 different C. burnetii isolates, including 3 reference strains (Nine Mile, Q212, and Priscilla) and 10 new isolates, in order to obtain 30% infected cells 6 days later. After inoculation, antibiotics were added, shell vials were incubated for 7 days, and immunofluorescence was revealed and compared with that of the positive controls. Strain Nine Mile was more susceptible than strains Q212 and Priscilla were. The heterogeneity of susceptibility to fluoroquinolones, chloramphenicol, and erythromycin was noted among the strains; all were resistant to amoxicillin and amikacin, and all were susceptible to rifampin, co-trimoxazole, tetracycline, and tetracycline analogs.
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