A pharmacodynamic simulation to evaluate tigecycline in treatment of nosocomial pneumonia caused by multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii
Journal Title: Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences - Year 2014, Vol 27, Issue 3
Abstract
The shortage of effective antibiotics against multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (MDR-Ab) has posed great threat to the public health. But the advent of tigecycline gives us new hope. The goal of our research was to assess the clinical efficacy of tigecycline at different doses by using a pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) model which can incorporate pharmacokinetic data of tigecycline from patients with pneumonia and MICs of MDR-Ab from a tertiary hospital. A 10000-patient Monte-Carlo Simulation based on the PK/PD model was conducted to calculate the probability of target attainment (PTA) and the cumulative fraction of response (CFR) of tigecycline. 97% isolates displayed susceptibility and 3% were tigecycline-intermediate strains and the values of MIC ranged from 0.125 to 4μg/ml. A CFR of 61.62% was predicted for tigecycline at current dosage (50 mg q12h). When the dosage was increased, the predicted CFRs for 75 mg q12h, 100 mg q12h, 125 mg q12h, 150 mg q12h were 81.00%, 89.86%, and 94.57%, 96.77%, respectively. Despite presented higher susceptibility, the CFR obtained was not optimal at current dosage. A higher CFR indicating a better clinical efficacy can be gained by the increased dosage.
Authors and Affiliations
Wen-tao Ni , Bei-bei Liang , Yun Cai , Yin-ping Liu , Nan Bai , Jun-chang Cui , Rui Wang
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