Cerebrospinal fluid penetration of tigecycline

Scand J Infect Dis. 2014 Jan;46(1):69-72. doi: 10.3109/00365548.2013.837957. Epub 2013 Oct 16.

Abstract

We report, in a clinical setting, the tigecycline concentration and area under the concentration-time curve (AUC) - both in blood and in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) - of a patient with a ventriculo-atrial shunt infection. Tigecycline weakly penetrates CSF the CSF-to-serum concentration ratio was 0.079 and CSF-to-serum AUC(0-12) ratio was 0.067.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / administration & dosage
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacokinetics*
  • Area Under Curve
  • Bacterial Infections / drug therapy
  • Cerebrospinal Fluid / chemistry*
  • Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts / adverse effects
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Minocycline / administration & dosage
  • Minocycline / analogs & derivatives*
  • Minocycline / pharmacokinetics
  • Plasma / chemistry
  • Tigecycline

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Tigecycline
  • Minocycline