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Clinical Experience with Ceftazidime-Avibactam for the Treatment of Infections due to Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria Other than Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales.


ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Experience in real clinical practice with ceftazidime-avibactam for the treatment of serious infections due to gram-negative bacteria (GNB) other than carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) is very limited. METHODS:We carried out a retrospective multicenter study of patients hospitalized in 13 Italian hospitals who received ?72 h of ceftazidime-avibactam for GNB other than CRE to assess the rates of clinical success, resistance development, and occurrence of adverse events. RESULTS:Ceftazidime-avibactam was used to treat 41 patients with GNB infections other than CRE. Median age was 62 years and 68% of them were male. The main causative agents were P. aeruginosa (33/41; 80.5%) and extended spectrum beta lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacterales (4/41, 9.8%). Four patients had polymicrobial infections. All strains were susceptible to ceftazidime-avibactam. The most common primary infection was nosocomial pneumonia (n = 20; 48.8%), primary bacteremia (n = 7; 17.1%), intra-abdominal infection (n = 4; 9.8%), and bone infection (n = 4; 9.8%). Ceftazidime-avibactam was mainly administered as a combination treatment (n = 33; 80.5%) and the median length of therapy was 13 days. Clinical success at the end of the follow-up period was 90.5%, and the only risk factor for treatment failure at multivariate analysis was receiving continuous renal replacement therapy during ceftazidime-avibactam. There was no association between clinical failures and type of primary infection, microbiological isolates, and monotherapy with ceftazidime-avibactam. Only one patient experienced recurrent infection 5 days after the end of treatment. Development of resistance to ceftazidime-avibactam was not detected in any case during the whole follow-up period. No adverse events related to ceftazidime-avibactam were observed in the study population. CONCLUSIONS:Ceftazidime-avibactam may be a valuable therapeutic option for serious infections due to GNB other than CRE.

SUBMITTER: Vena A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7168189 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Clinical Experience with Ceftazidime-Avibactam for the Treatment of Infections due to Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria Other than Carbapenem-Resistant <i>Enterobacterales</i>.

Vena Antonio A   Giacobbe Daniele Roberto DR   Castaldo Nadia N   Cattelan Annamaria A   Mussini Cristina C   Luzzati Roberto R   Rosa Francesco Giuseppe De FG   Del Puente Filippo F   Mastroianni Claudio Maria CM   Cascio Antonio A   Carbonara Sergio S   Capone Alessandro A   Boni Silvia S   Sepulcri Chiara C   Meschiari Marianna M   Raumer Francesca F   Oliva Alessandra A   Corcione Silvia S   Bassetti Matteo M  

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<h4>Background</h4>Experience in real clinical practice with ceftazidime-avibactam for the treatment of serious infections due to gram-negative bacteria (GNB) other than carbapenem-resistant <i>Enterobacterales</i> (CRE) is very limited.<h4>Methods</h4>We carried out a retrospective multicenter study of patients hospitalized in 13 Italian hospitals who received ≤72 h of ceftazidime-avibactam for GNB other than CRE to assess the rates of clinical success, resistance development, and occurrence of  ...[more]

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