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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
Synergistic effect between colistin and bacteriocins in controlling gram-negative pathogens and their potential to reduce antibiotic toxicity in mammalian epithelial cells
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Volume 57, No. 6, Year 2013
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Pathogens resistant to most conventional antibiotics are a harbinger of the need to discover novel antimicrobials and anti-infective agents and develop innovative strategies to combat them. The aim of this study was to assess the in vitro activity of colistin alone or in combination with two bacteriocins, nisin A and pediocin PA-1/AcH, against Salmonella choleraesuis ATCC 14028, Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 27853, Yersinia enterocolitica ATCC 9610, and Escherichia coli ATCC 35150 (O157:H7). The strain most sensitive to colistin was enterohemorrhagic E. coli O157:H7, which was inhibited at a concentration of about 0.12 μg/ml. When nisin A (1.70 μg/ml) or pediocin PA-1/AcH (1.56 μg/ml) was combined with colistin, the concentrations required to inhibit E. coli O157:H7 were 0.01 and 0.03 μg/ml, respectively. The in vitro antigenotoxic effect of colistin was determined by using the comet assay method to measure the level of DNA damage in freshly isolated human peripheral blood leukocytes (PBLs) incubated with colistin for 1 h at 37°C. Changes in the tail extents of PBLs of about 69.29±0.08 μmwere observed at a final colistin concentration of about 550 ng/ml. Besides the synergistic effect, the combination of colistin (1 mg/ml) and nisin (2 mg/ ml) permitted us to re-evaluate the toxic effect of colistin on Vero (monkey kidney epithelial) cells. Copyright © 2013, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.
Authors & Co-Authors
Naghmouchi, Karim
Canada, Lethbridge
Lethbridge Research and Development Centre
Tunisia, Tunis
Université de Tunis el Manar, Faculté Des Sciences de Tunis
Baah, John
Tunisia, Tunis
Université de Tunis el Manar, Faculté Des Sciences de Tunis
Hober, Didier
France, Lille
Laboratoire de Virologie
Jouy, Eric
France, Ploufragan
Anses Ploufragan-plouzané-niort Laboratory
Rubrecht, Cédric
France, Lille
Laboratoire de Virologie
Sane, F.
France, Lille
Laboratoire de Virologie
Drider, Djamel
France, Lille
Université de Lille
Statistics
Citations: 99
Authors: 7
Affiliations: 5
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1128/AAC.02328-12
ISSN:
00664804
e-ISSN:
10986596
Research Areas
Environmental
Genetics And Genomics
Infectious Diseases