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ReviewThe Lancet regional health. Southeast Asia2023

Loss of exclusivity of ceftazidime/avibactam in low- and middle-income countries: a test for antibiotic stewardship practice.

Balaji Veeraraghavan, Yamuna Devi Bakthavatchalam, Rani Diana Sahni, Shilpi Malhotra, Nitin Bansal, Kamini Walia

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Review in The Lancet regional health. Southeast Asia, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 35% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine Guidelines on Evidence-based Recommendations for the Treatment of Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales, Carbapenem-resistantIndian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine · 2026
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  2. Predicting brand share after LOE in chronic disease market using machine learning.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Balaji VeeraraghavanDepartment of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, 632004, India.
Yamuna Devi BakthavatchalamDepartment of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, 632004, India.
Rani Diana SahniDepartment of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, 632004, India.
Shilpi MalhotraDivision of Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India.
Nitin BansalDivision of Infectious Diseases, Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre, New Delhi, India.
Kamini WaliaDivision of Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India.
Christian Medical College, Vellore · INIndian Council of Medical Research · INRajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ceftazidime/avibactam is a last-line antibiotic, to be used as a targeted therapy for certain carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative infections and not to be used as an empirical therapy or as a carbapenem-sparing therapy. After a span of 5 years, the antibiotic recently lost its exclusivity and become a generic drug in India. It is assumed that generic players will aggressively market the drug, making it freely available even in pharmacies catering to primary- and secondary-care hospitals. We thus foresee certain potential adverse implications of introducing generic versions of ceftazidime/avibactam into the Indian market; as they will be a challenge to the antibiotic stewardship. In the real world scenario, the stewardship system in India is fragile, therefore, we may see empirical use of ceftazidime/avibactam even in primary and secondary-care hospitals. The existing widespread prevalence of MBL-producing isolates in India, will be further enhanced by the indiscriminate use of ceftazidime/avibactam.

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Ceftazidime/avibactamGeneric drugsMBLPBP3 insert

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PMID37614349
PMCPMC10442963
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