Ecofomural® (active substance: phosphomycin) is a broad-spectrum antibiotic, a phosphonic acid derivative.
Ecofomural®, being a structural analogue of pyruvate phosphoenol, inactivates the enzyme N-acetyl-glucosamino-3-o-enolpyruvyl transferase, irreversibly blocks the condensation of uridine diphosphate-N-acetyl-glucosamine with phosphoenol pyruvate, inhibits the synthesis of UDF-N-acetylmuramic acid, as a result of which the initial stage of peptidoglycan formation of the bacterial cell wall is suppressed, and as a result, the microbial cell death (bactericidal action) occurs. Inactivation of the enzyme N-acetyl-glucosamino-3-o-enolpyruvyl transferase reduces the likelihood of cross-resistance to antibiotics with a similar mechanism of action and creates the conditions for synergism (in experiments in vitro the synergistic effect with amoxicillin, cephalexin, pipemidinic acid was revealed).
In vitro to phosphomycin are sensitive Gram-positive (Staphylococcus saprophyticus, Enterococcus faecalis) and Gram-negative (Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumonia, Citrobacler spp., Enterobacter spp., Proteus mirabilis) microorganisms.
In vitro phosphomycin reduces the adhesion of a number of bacteria to the epithelium of the urinary tract.