Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics for efficacy and prevention of resistance

2d meeting of the Australian Society of Antimicrobials, Melbourne, Victoria, April 6th, 2001

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The ideal antibiotic ...

Will it always be ideal ?

Main causes of antibiotic failures...

PK / PD ...

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Pharmacokinetic/ Pharmacodynamics in Drug Development and Evaluation of Efficacy

PK/PD in drug develop-ment A view from FDA

Pharmacokinetic/ Pharmacodynamics and antibiotic resistance...

PK/PD and drug devlop-ment A view from EMEA

Are PK / PD important in resistance ?

Just a few of them… 

Pharmacokinetic/ Pharmacodynamics in Drug Development and Evaluation

Pharmacokinetic/ Pharmacodynamics: What are the goals ?

PK/PD and effectiveness: patterns of antimicrobial activity (after WA. Craig, 2000)

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?-lactams : at least 50 % of the time above the MIC...

PK / PD in action: what can you do with a model ?-lactam *

PK / PD in action... 

Improving ?-lactam efficacy by reducing the interval

PK /PD in action ... 

?-lactams PK / PD and resistance

PK/PD and effectiveness: patterns of antimicrobial activity (after WA. Craig, 2000)

AUC / MIC - dependent antibiotics and resistance

AUC / MIC - dependent antibiotics and resistance

PK/PD and effectiveness: patterns of antimicrobial activity (after WA. Craig, 2000)

Aminoglycosides : obtain a peak !

PK / PD in action ... 

PK /PD in action ... 

PK PD in action ... 

PK/PD of fluoroquinolones

24h AUC / MIC ratio

24h AUC / MIC and FQ effectiveness: in vitro dynamic models

Peak / MIC ratio

Peak / MIC and FQ effectiveness (animal models)

Peak / MIC of FQ: clinical data

Peak / MIC of FQ: clinical data

PK /PD in action ... 

24h-AUC / MIC as a tool to determine acceptable sensitivities to standard doses of FQ

Peak concentrations as a tool to determine acceptable sensitivities to standard doses of FQ

Combining it all …(Peak and 24h-AUC / MIC) as predictors of efficacy standard doses of FQ ...

Combining it all …(Peak and 24h-AUC / MIC) as predictors of efficacy standard doses of FQ ...

Patients may be treatable because AUC (but not Cmax) increases with decreased drug clearance

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Is a 24h AUC / MIC ratio of 125 necessary ?

PK / PD bkpt for AUC / MIC

To increase both AUC and peak … increase the unit dose ...

Breakpoints ??

Why would too high breakpoints favour the emergence of resistance to FQs ?

Resistance to fluoroquinolones: the basics

PK/PD and point mutations ...

PK/PD and point mutation in DNA gyrase...

Cmax and MPC of FQ’s

Significance of MPC ?

PK/PD and antibiotic efflux pumps...

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Efflux pumps...

Efflux pumps and first mutation may cooperate ... 

Efflux pumps may bring intrabacterial concentrations of FQ < MPC ...

PK/PD and resistance ?

A long way indeed ...

But closer than you tought ...

Author: Paul M. Tulkens 

Email: tulkens@facm.ucl.ac.be

Home Page: http://www.md.ucl.ac.be/facm/facm-conferences.htm

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