Mechanism of action
The drug Ksidalba contains dalbavancin, which is a bactericidal glycopeptide synthesized from a fermentation product of species Nonomuraea.
Its mechanism of action is the violation of the synthesis of the cell wall: by binding to the terminal dipeptide D-alanyl-D-alanine peptidoglycan stem peptide formed cell wall, dabavancin prevents the formation of cross-links(transpeptidation and transglycosylation) of disaccharide subunits, which leads to destruction of the cell wall.
Resistance
All gram-negative microorganisms are initially resistant to dalbavancin. Resistance to dalbavancin in species Staphylococcus and Enterococcus is due to VanA, genotype, which leads to the modification of the target peptide in the resulting cell wall. The activity of dalbavancin is not affected by other classes of resistance genes to vancomycin.
In clinical trials in patients infected with Staphylococcus aureus or Streptococcus pyogenes, at the baseline level (before the initiation of dalbavancin therapy), no microorganisms with a minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of dalbavancin> 0.125 mg / l were detected. Also, there were no significant changes in sensitivity to dalbavancin among any other microorganisms that were subsequently isolated during the treatment with the drug.
IPC dalbavancin is higher for staphylococci with intermediate sensitivity to vancomycin (VISA-vancomycin-intermediate staphylococci aureus), than for strains completely sensitive to vancomycin. Cross-resistance between dalbavancin and other classes of antibiotics in studies in vitro was not observed.
Interaction with other antibacterial agents
In studies in vitro There was no antagonism between dalbavancin and other commonly used antibiotics (for example, cefepime, ceftazidime, ceftriaxone, imipenem, meropenem, amikacin, aztreonam, ciprofloxacin, piperacillin / tazobactam and trimethoprim / sulfamethoxazole) when tested against 12 species of Gram-negative microorganisms.
Interrelation of pharmacokinetics / pharmacodynamics parameters
The bactericidal activity of dalbavancin against staphylococci in vitro (depends on time. In vivo relationship pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics dalbavancin for S.aureus was determined using a neutropenic model of infection in animals, which showed that the absolute decrease log10 colony-forming units (CFU) was large in the administration of large doses with a lower frequency.
Boundary values for sensitivity testing
The boundary values of the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) were proposed by the European Committee for Testing Antimicrobial Susceptibility (EUCAST):
- Staphylococcus spp.: sensitive - ≤0,125 mg / l; resistant -> 0,125 mg / l;
- Streptococcus beta-haemolyticus: (groups A, B, C, G) sensitive - ≤0,125 mg / l; resistant -> 0,125 mg / l.
- DGroup Streptococcus viridans (only Streptococcus anginosus) sensitive - ≤0,125 mg / l; resistant -> 0,125 mg / l.
Clinical efficacy against individual microorganisms
Clinical studies have shown efficacy against pathogens that cause acute bacterial infections of the skin and soft tissues that have been susceptible to dalbavancin in vitro:
Staphylococcus aureus
Streptococcus pyogenes
Streptococcus agalactiae
Streptococcus dysgalactiae
Group Streptococcus anginosus (including S.anginosus, S.intermedius and S.constellatus) Microorganisms from natural resistance
Gram-negative bacteria
Enterococci with resistance to vancomycin type VanA.