Mafenide

Mafenide

CAT N°: 23995
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Mafenide is a sulfonamide antibiotic that inhibits growth of bacteria.{39511,39512} It inhibits growth of clinical isolates of S. pyogenes, methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA), methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA), Enterococcus, Enterobacteriaceae, and Gram-negative bacilli from burn patients in an agar well diffusion assay (mean zone of inhibition = 24-37 mm) but not in a broth dilution assay with MIC values ranging from 250 to greater than 5,000 ?g/ml.{39511} Mafenide also inhibits growth of clinical isolates of K. pneumoniae that produce extended spectrum ?-lactamase (ESBL), P. aeruginosa, and A. baumannii-calcoaceticus from burn patients in an agar well diffusion assay (mean zones of inhibition = 23.5, 28.9, and 25.8 mm, respectively) but not in a broth dilution assay (mean MICs = 1,024 ?g/ml, 1,024 ?g/ml, and 1,024 ?g/ml, respectively).{39512} It decreases mortality in a rat model of burn wounds seeded with rat virulent P. aeruginosa.{39513} Mafenide also inhibits human carbonic anhydrase (CA) I and II (Kis = 41.91 and 0.612 ?M, respectively).{39514} Formulations containing mafenide have been used in the treatment of severe burns.

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