Bedaquiline and linezolid MIC distributions and epidemiological cut-off values for Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the Latin American region.

Lopez, Beatriz;Siqueira de Oliveira, Rosangela;Pinhata, Juliana M W;Chimara, Erica;Martin, Anandi;et.al.
(2019) Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy — Vol. 74, n° 2, p. 373-379 (2019)

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  • Lopez, Beatriz
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  • Siqueira de Oliveira, Rosangela
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  • Pinhata, Juliana M W
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  • Chimara, Erica
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  • Martin, AnandiUCLouvain
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Abstract
To describe the distributions of bedaquiline and linezolid MIC values for the Mycobacterium tuberculosis WT population and to define the corresponding epidemiological cut-offs (ECOFFs) in three Latin American countries. MICs of bedaquiline and linezolid were determined by the resazurin microtitre assay (REMA). In phase 1, interlaboratory reproducibility was assessed using a panel of 10 fully susceptible M. tuberculosis strains. Phase 2 involved MIC determination for 248 clinical isolates from Argentina (n = 58), Brazil (n = 100) and Peru (n = 90) from patients who were treatment-naive for bedaquiline and linezolid. We then determined the ECOFFs for bedaquiline and linezolid by the eyeball method and the ECOFFinder statistical calculator. Phase 1: REMA MIC values in the three sites were either identical to each other or differed by one 2-fold dilution from the consensus value with the exception of a single value. Phase 2: the bedaquiline MIC range was 0.0039-0.25 mg/L for pan-susceptible and drug-resistant isolates combined. The linezolid MIC range was 0.062-0.5 mg/L for pan-susceptible isolates and 0.031-4 mg/L for drug-resistant isolates. ECOFFs were 0.125 mg/L for bedaquiline and 0.50 mg/L for linezolid. REMA is reproducible and robust for the determination of bedaquiline and linezolid MIC distributions and ECOFF values when applied in laboratories of medium/low-resource countries. We suggest that WT MIC distributions for both drugs should be used as a monitoring tool to control the possible rapid emergence of resistance.
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Lopez, B., Siqueira de Oliveira, R., Pinhata, J. M. W., Chimara, E., Pacheco Ascencio, E., Puyén Guerra, Z. M., Wainmayer, I., Simboli, N., Del Granado, M., Palomino, J. C., Ritacco, V., & Martin, A. (2019). Bedaquiline and linezolid MIC distributions and epidemiological cut-off values for Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the Latin American region. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 74(2), 373-379. https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dky414 (Original work published 2019)