1. A Multinational, Preregistered Cohort Study of β-Lactam/β-Lactamase Inhibitor Combinations for Treatment of Bloodstream Infections Due to Extended-Spectrum-β-Lactamase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae
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Belén Gutiérrez Gutiérrez, Salvador Pérez Galera, Elena Salamanca, Marina de Cueto, Esther Calbo, Benito Almirante, VIALE, PIERLUIGI, Antonio Oliver, Vicente Pintado, Oriol Gasch, Luis Martínez Martínez, Johann Pitout, Murat Akova, Carmen Peña, José Molina, Alicia Hernández, Mario Venditti, Nuria Prim, Julia Origüen, German Bou, Evelina Tacconelli, Mario Tumbarello, Axel Hamprecht, Helen Giamarellou, Manel Almela, Federico Pérez, Mitchell J. Schwaber, Joaquín Bermejo, Warren Lowman, Po Ren Hsueh, Marta Mora Rillo, Clara Natera, Maria Souli, Robert A. Bonomo, Yehuda Carmeli, David L. Paterson, Alvaro Pascual, Jesús Rodríguez Baño, the REIPI/ESGBIS/INCREMENT Group [, Gálvez, J., Del Toro, M. D., Retamar, P., Falcone, M., Russo, A., Daikos, G., Karaiskos, I., Trecarichi, E. M., Losito, A. R., Paterson, D. L., García Vázquez, E., Gómez, J., Roilides, E., Iosifidis, E., Doi, Y., Tuon, F. F., Navarro, F., Mirelis, B., San Juan, R., Fernández Ruiz, M., Larrosa, N., Puig, M., Cisneros, J. M., González, V., Rucci, Victoria, Ruiz De Gopegui, E., Marinescu, C. I., Fariñas, M. C., Cano, M. E., Gozalo, M., Paño Pardo, J. R., Navarro San Francisco, C., Gómez Zorrilla, S., Tubau, F., Pournaras, S., Tsakris, A., Zarkotou, O., Azap, Ö. K., Antoniadou, A., Poulakou, G., Virmani, D., Torre Cisneros, J., Pérez Nadales, E., Gracia Ahulfinger, I., Helvaci, Ö., Sahin, A. O., Cantón, R., Ruiz, P., BARTOLETTI, MICHELE, GIANNELLA, MADDALENA, Riemenschneider, F., Badia, C., Xercavins, Mariona, Fontanals, D., Jové, E., Belén Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez, Salvador Pérez-Galera, Elena Salamanca, Marina de Cueto, Esther Calbo, Benito Almirante, Pierluigi Viale, Antonio Oliver, Vicente Pintado, Oriol Gasch, Luis Martínez-Martínez, Johann Pitout, Murat Akova, Carmen Peña, José Molina, Alicia Hernández, Mario Venditti, Nuria Prim, Julia Origüen, German Bou, Evelina Tacconelli, Mario Tumbarello, Axel Hamprecht, Helen Giamarellou, Manel Almela, Federico Pérez, Mitchell J. Schwaber, Joaquín Bermejo, Warren Lowman, Po-Ren Hsueh, Marta Mora-Rillo, Clara Natera, Maria Souli, Robert A. Bonomo, Yehuda Carmeli, David L. Paterson, Alvaro Pascual, Jesús Rodríguez-Baño, the REIPI/ESGBIS/INCREMENT Group [, Gálvez, J., Del Toro, M.D., Retamar, P., Falcone, M., Russo, A., Daikos, G., Karaiskos, I., Trecarichi, E.M., Losito, A.R., Paterson, D.L., García-Vázquez, E., Gómez, J., Roilides, E., Iosifidis, E., Doi, Y., Tuon, F.F., Navarro, F., Mirelis, B., San Juan, R., Fernández-Ruiz, M., Larrosa, N., Puig, M., Cisneros, J.M., González, V., Rucci, Victoria, Ruiz De Gopegui, E., Marinescu, C.I., Fariñas, M.C., Cano, M.E., Gozalo, M., Paño-Pardo, J.R., Navarro-San Francisco, C., Gómez-Zorrilla, S., Tubau, F., Pournaras, S., Tsakris, A., Zarkotou, O., Azap, Ö.K., Antoniadou, A., Poulakou, G., Virmani, D., Torre-Cisneros, J., Pérez-Nadales, E., Gracia-Ahulfinger, I., Helvaci, Ö., Sahin, A.O., Cantón, R., Ruiz, P., Bartoletti, M., Giannella, M., Riemenschneider, F., Badia, C., Xercavins, Mariona, Fontanals, D., Jové, E., ], Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, European Commission, Red Española de Investigación en Patología Infecciosa, European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations, Cuyahoga County Veterans Service Commission, Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (US), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (US), National Institutes of Health (US), Peña, Carmen [0000-0002-6673-2883], Peña, Carmen, İç Hastalıkları, Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Microbiología, Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Medicina, and European Union (UE). FP7
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0301 basic medicine ,Male ,Carbapenem ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Pediatrics ,030106 microbiology ,Infectious Disease ,Bacteremia ,Kaplan-Meier Estimate ,Clinical Therapeutics ,Settore MED/17 - MALATTIE INFETTIVE ,beta-Lactams ,Microbiology ,beta-Lactamases ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Aged ,Anti-Bacterial Agents ,Carbapenems ,Enterobacteriaceae ,Female ,Humans ,Middle Aged ,Multivariate Analysis ,Odds Ratio ,Retrospective Studies ,beta-Lactamase Inhibitors ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Pharmacology (medical) ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Pharmacology & Pharmacy ,Beta-Lactamase Inhibitors ,Pharmacology ,business.industry ,Mortality rate ,Retrospective cohort study ,Odds ratio ,bacterial infections and mycoses ,Confidence interval ,3. Good health ,Infectious Diseases ,Cohort ,business ,medicine.drug ,Cohort study - Abstract
The spread of extended-spectrum-β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacteriaceae (ESBL-E) is leading to increased carbapenem consumption. Alternatives to carbapenems need to be investigated. We investigated whether β-lactam/β-lactamase inhibitor (BLBLI) combinations are as effective as carbapenems in the treatment of bloodstream infections (BSI) due to ESBL-E. A multinational, retrospective cohort study was performed. Patients with monomicrobial BSI due to ESBL-E were studied; specific criteria were applied for inclusion of patients in the empirical-therapy (ET) cohort (ETC; 365 patients), targeted-therapy (TT) cohort (TTC; 601 patients), and global cohort (GC; 627 patients). The main outcome variables were cure/improvement rate at day 14 and all-cause 30-day mortality. Multivariate analysis, propensity scores (PS), and sensitivity analyses were used to control for confounding. The cure/improvement rates with BLBLIs and carbapenems were 80.0% and 78.9% in the ETC and 90.2% and 85.5% in the TTC, respectively. The 30-day mortality rates were 17.6% and 20% in the ETC and 9.8% and 13.9% in the TTC, respectively. The adjusted odds ratio (OR) (95% confidence interval [CI]) values for cure/improvement rate with ET with BLBLIs were 1.37 (0.69 to 2.76); for TT, they were 1.61 (0.58 to 4.86). Regarding 30-day mortality, the adjusted OR (95% CI) values were 0.55 (0.25 to 1.18) for ET and 0.59 (0.19 to 1.71) for TT. The results were consistent in all subgroups studied, in a stratified analysis according to quartiles of PS, in PS-matched cases, and in the GC. BLBLIs, if active in vitro, appear to be as effective as carbapenems for ET and TT of BSI due to ESLB-E regardless of the source and specific species. These data may help to avoid the overuse of carbapenems. (This study has been registered at ClinicalTrials.gov under registration no. NCT01764490.), The work was funded by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, cofinanced by European Development Regional Fund titled A Way To Achieve Europe ERDF, the Spanish Network for Research in Infectious Diseases (REIPI RD12/0015), and FIS (PI10/02021). Participants in the study received support for research from the Innovative Medicines Initiative Joint Undertaking under the Combatting Bacterial Resistance in Europe—Molecule against Gram Negative Infections (COMBACTE-MAGNET) agreement 115737 resources, which are composed of financial contributions from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) companies' in kind contributions (A. Pascua and J. Rodríguez-Baño), the Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs, the Veterans Affairs Merit Review Program, the Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center VISN 10 (VISN 10 GRECC), and NIAID, NIH, under award numbers R01AI072219 and R01AI063517 (R. A. Bonomo).
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- 2016