Colistin plus meropenem for carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative infections: in vitro synergism is not associated with better clinical outcomes

Autor: Amir Nutman, Jonathan Lellouche, Elizabeth Temkin, George Daikos, Anna Skiada, Emanuele Durante-Mangoni, Yael Dishon-Benattar, Roni Bitterman, Dafna Yahav, Vered Daitch, Mariano Bernardo, Domenico Iossa, Oren Zusman, Lena E. Friberg, Johan W. Mouton, Ursula Theuretzbacher, Leonard Leibovici, Mical Paul, Yehuda Carmeli, Yael Dishon Benattar, Yaakov Dickstein, Hiba Zayyad, Fidi Koppel, Yael Zak-Doron, Sergey Altunin, Nizar Andria, Ami Neuberger, Anat Stern, Neta Petersiel, Marina Raines, Amir Karban, Noa Eliakim-Raz, Michal Elbaz, Heyam Atamna, Tanya Babich, Amos Adler, Inbar Levi, George L. Daikos, Ioannis Pavleas, Anastasia Antoniadou, Antigoni Kotsaki, Roberto Andini, Giusi Cavezza, Lorenzo Bertolino, Giuseppe Giuffre, Roberto Giurazza, Susanna Cuccurullo, Maria Galdo, Patrizia Murino, Adriano Cristinziano, Antonio Corcione, Rosa Zampino, Pia Clara Pafundi, Johan Mouton, Lena Friberg, Anders Kristoffersson
Přispěvatelé: Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Nutman, A., Lellouche, J., Temkin, E., Daikos, G., Skiada, A., Durante Mangoni, E., Dishon-Benattar, Y., Bitterman, R., Yahav, D., Daitch, V., Bernardo, M., Iossa, D., Zusman, O., Friberg, L. E., Mouton, J. W., Theuretzbacher, U., Leibovici, L., Paul, M., Carmeli, Y., Benattar, Y. D., Dickstein, Y., Zayyad, H., Koppel, F., Zak-Doron, Y., Altunin, S., Andria, N., Neuberger, A., Stern, A., Petersiel, N., Raines, M., Karban, A., Eliakim-Raz, N., Elbaz, M., Atamna, H., Babich, T., Adler, A., Levi, I., Daikos, G. L., Pavleas, I., Antoniadou, A., Kotsaki, A., Andini, R., Cavezza, G., Bertolino, L., Giuffre, G., Giurazza, R., Cuccurullo, S., Galdo, M., Murino, P., Cristinziano, A., Corcione, A., Zampino, R., Pafundi, P. C., Mouton, J., Friberg, L., Kristoffersson, A.
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
0301 basic medicine
Male
Polymyxin
Infektionsmedicin
law.invention
Checkerboard assay
0302 clinical medicine
Randomized controlled trial
law
polycyclic compounds
030212 general & internal medicine
Gram
Aged
80 and over

Cross Infection
biology
Drug Synergism
General Medicine
Middle Aged
Acinetobacter baumannii
Gram-negative infections synergism
Infectious Diseases
Treatment Outcome
Female
medicine.drug
Microbiology (medical)
Infectious Medicine
medicine.medical_specialty
Carbapenem resistance
medicine.drug_class
030106 microbiology
Microbial Sensitivity Tests
Meropenem
03 medical and health sciences
Internal medicine
Drug Resistance
Bacterial

Gram-Negative Bacteria
medicine
Pneumonia
Bacterial

Humans
Aged
business.industry
Colistin
Odds ratio
biochemical phenomena
metabolism
and nutrition

bacterial infections and mycoses
biology.organism_classification
Carbapenems
Combination treatment
bacteria
business
Antagonism
Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections
Zdroj: Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 26(9), 1185-1191. Elsevier Ltd.
ISSN: 1469-0691
1198-743X
Popis: Objectives In vitro models showing synergism between polymyxins and carbapenems support combination treatment for carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative (CRGN) infections. We tested the association between the presence of in vitro synergism and clinical outcomes in patients treated with colistin plus meropenem. Methods This was a secondary analysis of AIDA, a randomized controlled trial comparing colistin with colistin–meropenem for severe CRGN infections. We tested in vitro synergism using a checkerboard assay. Based on the fractional inhibitory concentration (ΣFIC) index for each colistin–meropenem combination, we categorized results as synergistic, antagonistic or additive/indifferent. The primary outcome was clinical failure at 14 days. Secondary outcomes were 14- and 28-day mortality and microbiological failure. Results The sample included 171 patients with infections caused by carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (n = 131), Enterobacteriaceae (n = 37) and Pseudomonas aeuruginosa (n = 3). In vitro testing showed synergism for 73 isolates, antagonism for 20 and additivism/indifference for 78. In patients who received any colistin plus meropenem, clinical failure at 14 days was 59/78 (75.6%) in the additivism/indifference group (reference category), 54/73 (74.0%) in the synergism group (adjusted odds ratio (aOR) 0.76, 95% CI 0.31–1.83), and 11/20 (55%) in the antagonism group (aOR 0.77, 95% CI 0.22–2.73). There was no significant difference between groups for any secondary outcome. Comparing the synergism group to patients treated with colistin monotherapy, synergism was not protective against 14-day clinical failure (aOR 0.52, 95% CI 0.26–1.04) or 14-day mortality (aOR1.09, 95% CI 0.60–1.96). Discussion In vitro synergism between colistin and meropenem via checkerboard method did not translate into clinical benefit.
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