Abstract
Objective: To test the in vitro antibacterial activity of nemonoxacin against clinically isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex(MTBC), Mycobacterium intracellulare(MI) and Mycobacterium abscessus(MA). Methods: Totally 128, 80 and 50 isolates of MTBC, M.intracellulare and M.abscessus were tested, respectively. The minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of nemonoxacin and levofloxacin against the strains of the three most frequently isolated mycobacterium species were measured by double dilution method with micro-well plate. Results: The MICs of 104(81.2%) strains of MTBC isolates against levofloxacin were ≤ 1 μg/ml. Whereas 112 (87.5%) strains of MTBC isolates had MICs against nemonoxacin than>1 μg/ml, furthermore, the MICs of 88(68.8%)strains of MTBC isolates against nemonoxacin were≥4 μg/ml. The median MIC of M. intracellulare isolates against levofloxacin and nenofloxacin were 16 and 32 μg/ml, separately, while were 16 μg/ml and 8 μg/ml for M. abscessus, respectively. The ratios of nemonoxacin MIC/levofloxacin MIC of M. abscessus were between 0.125-1.000. Conclusions: Nemonoxacin presented weaker inhibitory activity than levofloxacin against M. tuberculosis, whereas it had better activity than levofloxacin against M. abscessus.
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