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Simonetti, O. et al.

Oriana Simonetti, Oscar Cirioni, Roberto Ghiselli, Gaia Goteri, Alessandro Scalise, Fiorenza Orlando, Carmela Silvestri, Alessandra Riva, Vittorio Saba, Kiran D. Madanahally, Annamaria Offidani, Naomi Balaban, Giorgio Scalise, Andrea Giacometti,

RNAIII-inhibiting peptide enhances healing of wounds infected with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

Quorum sensing is a mechanism through which a bacterial population receives input from neighboring cells and elicits an appropriate response to enable survival within the host. Inhibiting quorum sensing by RNAIII-inhibiting peptide (RIP) has been demonstrated as a very effective mode of prevention and therapy for device-associated staphylococcal infections and was tested here for healing of wounds that are otherwise resistant to conventional antibiotics. Wounds, established through the panniculus carnosus of BALB/c mice, were inoculated with 5 x 10(7) CFU of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Mice were treated with Allevyn, RIP-soaked Allevyn (containing 20 microg RIP), daily intraperitoneal teicoplanin (7 mg/kg of body weight), Allevyn and teicoplanin, and RIP-soaked Allevyn and daily intraperitoneal teicoplanin. The main outcome measures were quantitative bacterial culture and histological examination with assessment of microvessel density and of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) expression in tissue sections. Treatment with RIP-soaked Allevyn together with teicoplanin injection greatly reduced the bacterial load to 13 CFU/g (control untreated animals had 10(8) CFU/g bacteria). All other treatments were also significantly effective but only reduced the bacterial load to about 10(3) CFU/ml. Histological examination indicated that only treatment with RIP-soaked Allevyn with teicoplanin injection restored epithelial, granulation, and collagen scores, as well as microvessel density and VEGF expression, to the levels found with uninfected mice. In conclusion, we observed that RIP may be useful for the management of infected wounds and that it could represent an exciting and future alternative to the conventional antibiotics, at present considered the gold-standard treatments for methicillin-resistant S. aureus infections.[1]

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RNAIII-inhibiting peptide enhances healing of wounds infected with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Simonetti, O., Cirioni, O., Ghiselli, R., Goteri, G., Scalise, A., Orlando, F., Silvestri, C., Riva, A., Saba, V., Madanahally, K.D., Offidani, A., Balaban, N., Scalise, G., Giacometti, A. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. (2008) [Pubmed]

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