Evaluation of antibacterial activity of some non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs againstEscherichia coli causing urinary tract infection
Abstract
Extensive use of antibiotics for urinary tract infections has led to the emergence of drug-resistant microorganisms and one solution to this problem is to search for non-antibiotic compounds that exert anti-bacterial activity through different mechanisms such as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). In this study, out of 100 urine samples; 48 Escherichia coli strains were detected, 47.9% were multi-drug resistant. The antibiogram resistance pattern of the strains was carried out by agar dilution method. Diclofenac sodium, indomethacin, aspirin and ibuprofen were tested against the E. coli isolates. Diclofenac sodium showed the lowest MIC50 and MIC90; 8 and 256 mg/ml, respectively. Aspirin showed MIC50 of 64 mg/ml, while both indomethacin and ibuprofen showed MIC50 of 256 mg/ml. Indomethacin, aspirin and ibuprofen showed the same MIC90 of 1024 mg/ml. The combined effects of the four NSAIDs and five antibiotics (Amoxicillin, Augmentin, Cefotaxime, Ciprofloxacin and Gentamicin) were tested on five resistant clinical E. coli strains by checkerboard dilution technique. All the tested NSAIDs significantly reduced the minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of antibiotics against the tested bacteria and fractional inhibitory concentration indices (FICIs) for this combination ranged from 0.03 to 0.5. In this study, leakage of intracellular components suggests that the effect of NSAIDs on E. coli could be the formation of pores in the plasma membrane and scanning electron…
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