Disclosed is use of a combined compound
medicine in treating
pathogenic bacteria persistent infection. Existing antibiotic monotherapy or
combination therapy is usually difficult to kill
pathogenic bacteria in the persister state, especially
nutrient-insensitive persister
bacteria, which often lead to a series of problems of long
treatment period, frequent condition recurrence and deterioration,
treatment failure,
drug-resistant
mutation, etc. At present, drugs capable of efficiently killing highly persistent
pathogenic bacteria in a clinically applicable concentration range are still unavailable. The novel compound
medicine of
polymyxin and
aminoglycoside antibiotics disclosed in the present disclosure without precedence is capable of destroying bacterial
cell membranes in a short time within a relatively wide range of clinically achievable
plasma concentrations, leading to rapid death of a large number of
bacteria, but is safe for human-derived cells. Therefore, the compound
medicine is expected to be applied to the
clinical treatment of various acute or chronic infectious diseases caused by pathogenic
bacteria in the persister state, shortening the treatment course, preventing the recurrence of infection recurrence, and slowing down the emergence of
drug-resistant mutations.