Effect of tetracycline, polymyxin B, and rifampin on phagocytosis

Abstract

Tetracycline, polymyxin B, and rifampin (an investigational, semisynthetic antibiotic) did not affect engulfment or intraleukocyte killing of bacteria by leukocytes derived from the peripheral blood of normal volunteers. The augury of unimpaired phagocytic function in the infected human being under treatment with either of these agents has clinical support.