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ReviewLife (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Ceftolozane/Tazobactam for Resistant Drugs

Luca Gregorio Giaccari, Maria Caterina Pace, Maria Beatrice Passavanti, Francesca Gargano, Caterina Aurilio, Pasquale Sansone

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Review in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 40% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Extensively drug-resistantFrontiers in microbiology · 2024
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  4. Mechanisms of Action of Carbapenem Resistance.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Luca Gregorio GiaccariDepartment of Women, Child, General and Specialistic Surgery, University of Campania "L. Vanvitelli", 80138 Naples, Italy.
Maria Caterina PaceDepartment of Women, Child, General and Specialistic Surgery, University of Campania "L. Vanvitelli", 80138 Naples, Italy.
Maria Beatrice PassavantiDepartment of Women, Child, General and Specialistic Surgery, University of Campania "L. Vanvitelli", 80138 Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9659-0847
Francesca GarganoUnit of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Management, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, 00128 Rome, Italy.
Caterina AurilioDepartment of Women, Child, General and Specialistic Surgery, University of Campania "L. Vanvitelli", 80138 Naples, Italy.
Pasquale SansoneDepartment of Women, Child, General and Specialistic Surgery, University of Campania "L. Vanvitelli", 80138 Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0873-3586
University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" · ITUniversità Campus Bio-Medico · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundCeftolozane/tazobactam (C/T) is a β-lactam/β-lactamase inhibitor combination that mainly targets Gram-negative bacteria. The current international guidelines recommend including C/T treatment in the empirical therapy for hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP).

methodsThe main electronic databases were screened to identify case reports of patients with drug-resistant PA respiratory infections treated with C/T.

resultsA total of 22 publications were included for a total of 84 infective episodes. The clinical success rate was 72.6% across a wide range of comorbidities. The 45.8% of patients treated with C/T presented colonization by PA. C/T was well tolerated. Only six patients presented adverse events, but none had to stop treatment. The most common therapeutic regimens were 1.5 g every 8 h and 3 g every 8 h.

conclusionC/T may be a valid therapeutic option to treat multidrug-resistant (MDR), extensively drug-resistant (XDR), pandrug-resistant (PDR), and carbapenem-resistant (CR) PA infections. However, further data are necessary to define the optimal treatment dosage and duration.

Indexed as

carbapenem-resistant (CR)ceftolozane/tazobactamextensively drug-resistant (XDR)hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP)multidrug-resistant (MDR)pandrug-resistant (PDR)Pseudomonas aeruginosaventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP)

Identifiers

PMID34073847
PMCPMC8225018
OpenAlexW3164331532

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