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  • Title: Pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics of antofloxacin hydrochloride in a neutropenic murine thigh model of Staphylococcus aureus infection.
    Author: Xiao XM, Xiao YH.
    Journal: Acta Pharmacol Sin; 2008 Oct; 29(10):1253-60. PubMed ID: 18817632.
    Abstract:
    AIM: Antofloxacin hydrochloride is a new fluoroquinolone antibiotic with broad-spectrum in vitro activity. Using the neutropenic murine thigh infection model, we defined the pharmacodynamic profile and property of antofloxacin hydrochloride against Staphylococcus aureus. METHODS: Single-dose pharmacokinetic studies of antofloxacin hydrochloride were carried out in thigh infected mice. Therapy was initiated at 2 h postinoculation with 5-640 mg/kg per d fractionated for different dosing regimens. The thighs were removed for bacterial measurement after 24 h of therapy, the best pharmacokinetic/ pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) index correlated with the efficacy was determined by nonlinear regression analysis. A sigmoid E(max) dose-response model was used to estimate the daily dose and AUC(24 h)/MIC (minimal inhibitory concentration) required to achieve a static effect. RESULTS: The PK was linear with similar elimination half-life over the dose range studied. The AUC(24 h)/MIC ratio was the PK/PD parameter that best correlated with efficacy (R(2)=92.3%, 90.8% for the two organisms, compared with C(max)/MIC and T>MIC [%], respectively). The 24 h static dose ranged from 34.3 to 153.7 mg/kg per d for all S aureus strains, the total AUC(24 h)/MIC ratio to achieve bacteriostatic effect varied from 31.7 to 122.5 (mean, 65.7+/-30.6). CONCLUSION: Antofloxacin hydrochloride showed powerful antibacterial activity against the S aureus isolates used in our neutropenic infected mice model. Our data suggested that the AUC/MIC ratio appeared to be most closely linked to the bacterial outcome (R(2)>90%), and a total AUC(24 h)/MIC ratio of 65.7 appears to be the target value to achieve a net bactericidal activity against S aureus, similar to the results of other fluoroquinolones.
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