Guest guest Posted July 15, 2005 Report Share Posted July 15, 2005 Si vous avez manqué le début: A Marseille, chez mon (ex-) ami Raoult, ils traitent les endocardites dues à des infections bactériennes persistantes de style Rickettsies (ici il s'agit de iella burnetii) par doxy et plaquenil (hydroxychloroquine) pndnt de longs mois (de 18 mois à 3 ans). Cette étude démontre que la baisse des anticorps à burnetii est d'autant plus rapide que la concentration de doxy ds le sérum est élevée. Si le rapport dose mesurée ds le sérum du patient/ MIC (Minimum inhibitory Concentration) est de 1 ou supérieure le patient voit ses anticorps chuter plus rapidement que si ce rapport est < 1. Le seul patient qui soit mort ds cette étude avait un rapport < 0,5 et en plus sa variété de iella burnetii était RESISTANTE à la doxy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Je n'ose pas me demander quelle était l'évolution de ses symptômes, en tout cas, ils n'en parlent pas. J'aimerais bien voir cette étude en entier. J'ose espérer qu'ils ne se sont pas obstinés avec doxy/plaquénil si le malade ne s'améliorait pas!!!! Moralité: il faut tester le niveau d'abx ds le sérum Moralité bis: si le malade ne s'améliore pas, il faut changer de traitement, duh! (comme disent les américains!) Nelly Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2005 Jul;49(7):2673-6. Correlation between ratio of serum doxycycline concentration to MIC and rapid decline of antibody levels during treatment of Q fever endocarditis.Rolain JM, Boulos A, Mallet MN, Raoult D.Unite des Rickettsies, CNRS UMR 6020, IFR 48, Faculte de Medecine, Universite de la Mediterranee, 27 Boulevard Moulin, 13385 Marseille Cedex 05, France.Endocarditis is the major clinical manifestation of chronic Q fever. Although doxycycline along with hydroxychloroquine remains the mainstay of medical therapy for Q fever endocarditis, there are wide variations in the rapidity of the patient's decline of antibody levels during such therapy. We undertook a retrospective examination of whether there was any correlation between the ratio of serum concentration to MIC of doxycycline and response to treatment in patients with Q fever endocarditis. Included herein are 16 patients from whom iella burnetii was isolated from cardiac valve materials. Serology and measurement of doxycycline and hydroxychloroquine serum levels were performed and recorded after 1 year of treatment. The MIC of doxycycline for C. burnetii isolates was determined using the shell vial assay in a real-time quantitative PCR assay. ******At the completion of a year-long therapy with doxycycline-hydroxychloroquine, all those that showed a low decline of antibody levels (n = 6) (i.e., <2-fold decrease in antibody titer to phase I C. burnetii antigen) had a ratio of serum doxycycline concentration to MIC between 0.5 and 1. In contrast, those having a ratio of > or =1 showed a rapid decline of phase I antibody levels (n = 9; P < 0.05). ******The only patient who died had a serum doxycycline-to-MIC ratio of <0.5, and the isolate of C. burnetii cultured from this patient was resistant to doxycycline (MIC = 8 microg/ml).**** The ratio of serum doxycycline concentration to MIC should be monitored during the course of therapy in patients with Q fever endocarditis.PMID: 15980335 [PubMed - in process] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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