[The effect of pivampicillin and probenecid on experimental syphilis in rabbits]

Hautarzt. 1975 Aug;26(8):423-4.
[Article in German]

Abstract

The oral single-dose-treatment of the acute gonorrhoeal urethritis of the male with 1.4 g pivampicillin and 1.0 g probenecid is one of the possible alternatives to a parenteral penicillin treatment. Experiments were performed on rabbits to determine if this dose of pivampicillin and probenecid could cure a simultaneously acquired syphilis at a very early stage of incubation. 300 treponems (Nichols strain, T. pallidum) were inoculated intratesticularly and 3 days later pivampicillin and probenecid were administered in doses which produced antibiotic serum levels similar to those in patients who had received a single oral dose of 1.4 g pivampicillin and 1.0 g probenecid. Controls over a 15-weeks period showed that this dosage did prevent the development of syphilitic orchitis and reactivity to the quantitative FTA-ABS-test. It is concluded that the treatment of acute gonorrhoea with 1.4 g pivampicillin and 1.0 g probenecid in general is sufficient to cure a simultaneously acquired syphilis.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Administration, Oral
  • Ampicillin / analogs & derivatives*
  • Animals
  • Disease Models, Animal
  • Drug Therapy, Combination
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Pivampicillin / therapeutic use*
  • Probenecid / therapeutic use*
  • Rabbits
  • Syphilis / drug therapy*

Substances

  • Pivampicillin
  • Ampicillin
  • Probenecid