Improving the ability of antimicrobial susceptibility tests to predict clinical outcome accurately: Adding metabolic evasion to the equation.

Drug Discovery Today
Jason TasseNicolas Tesse

Abstract

Antimicrobial susceptibility tests (AST) are based on the minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC), the method used worldwide to guide antimicrobial therapy. Despite its relevance in correctly predicting clinical outcome for most acute infections, this approach is misleading for multiple clinical cases in which pathogens do not grow rapidly, uniformly or with physical protection. This behaviour, named 'metabolic evasion' (ME), enables bacteria to survive antimicrobials. ME can result from different, and sometimes combined, bacterial mechanisms such as biofilms, intracellular growth, persisters or dormancy. We discuss how ME can influence the MIC-based probability of target attainment. We identify clinical cases in which this approach is undermined by ME and propose a new approach that takes ME into account in order to improve patient management and the evaluation of innovative drugs.

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