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Flow cytometric assessment of the postantibiotic effect of methicillin on Staphylococcus aureus.

Suller, M T and Lloyd, D ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5656-0571 1998. Flow cytometric assessment of the postantibiotic effect of methicillin on Staphylococcus aureus. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 42 (5) , 1195--1199. 10.1128/AAC.42.5.1195

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Abstract

The postantibiotic effect (PAE) following a 2-h exposure of Staphylococcus aureus NCTC 6571 to methicillin (5x the MIC) was investigated with fluorescent probes, 5-cyano-2,3-di-4-tolyl tetrazolium chloride (CTC), an indicator of respiratory activity, and the membrane potential-sensitive compound bis-(1,3-dibutylbarbituric acid) trimethine oxonol [DiBAC4(3)]. Counts of the numbers of CFU on solid agar correlated well with information gained from the CTC and DiBAC4(3) fluorescence intensity distributions obtained by flow cytometry and revealed that the postantibiotic effect was 3.1 h. Due to the capacity of flow cytometry to provide information on the heterogeneity of a bacterial population, both fluorescent probes identified the emergence of an active subpopulation 4 h after removal of the methicillin, indicating the recovery of a small percentage of the population. After removal of the methicillin and resuspension of the cells in methicillin-free medium, a further decrease in the respiratory activity and the membrane integrity of the population was observed, although the CFU counts hardly varied, indicating continued antibiotic-induced damage. Also, CTC fluorescence measurements identified numerous subpopulations during the PAE period; this suggests that the PAE is complex, with individual organisms exhibiting various degrees of recovery. Flow cytometry thus provides a rapid and sensitive alternative to traditional techniques that have been used to study PAE, with the added advantage that physiological changes can be detected as they arise.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Biosciences
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
ISSN: 0066-4804
Date of Acceptance: 25 February 1998
Last Modified: 26 Oct 2022 08:40
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/128027

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