Evaluation of Amoxicillin and Amoxicillin-Clavulanate (Augmentin) for Antimicrobial Postexposure Prophylaxis following Bacillus anthracis Inhalational Exposure in Cynomolgus Macaques

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Amoxicillin is a broad-spectrum antibiotic used to treat a variety of gram-positive and gram-negative infections, such as infections of the ear, nose, and throat, genitourinary tract, skin, and lower respiratory tract; gonorrhea; and Helicobacter pylori. The prophylactic benefit of both amoxicillin and Augmentin (amoxicillin-clavulanate for use against β-lactamase–expressing bacteria) was evaluated for inhalation anthrax in cynomolgus macaques in 2 studies. A pilot study on amoxicillin-clavulanate that used a portion of the study animals demonstrated empirically that dosing twice a day was efficacious. In a subsequent study on both amoxicillin and amoxicillin-clavulanate that used the remaining study animals, the animals were treated orally every 12 hours on days 1–28 postchallenge and followed for an additional 60 days (total of 88 days from day of aerosol challenge to when the animals were culled). The animals from each treatment arm of the 2 studies were completely protected. All untreated animals succumbed to the infection. The degree of protection observed in this study suggests that both amoxicillin and amoxicillin-clavulanate, administered prophylactically over a period of 28 days after a lethal exposure to Bacillus anthracis spores, is sufficient for full protection.

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Slay, R. M., Hatch, G. J., & Hewitt, J. A. (2022). Evaluation of Amoxicillin and Amoxicillin-Clavulanate (Augmentin) for Antimicrobial Postexposure Prophylaxis following Bacillus anthracis Inhalational Exposure in Cynomolgus Macaques. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 75(3 Supplement), S402–S410. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciac572

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