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ArticleEuropean journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology2024

Multidrug-resistant Gram-negative clinical isolates with reduced susceptibility/resistance to cefiderocol: which are the best present and future therapeutic alternatives?

Christophe Le Terrier, Samanta Freire, Patrice Nordmann, Laurent Poirel

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Article in European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Christophe Le TerrierEmerging Antibiotic Resistance Unit, Medical and Molecular Microbiology, Department of Medicine, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 18, CH-1700, Fribourg, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5455-5576
Samanta FreireEmerging Antibiotic Resistance Unit, Medical and Molecular Microbiology, Department of Medicine, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 18, CH-1700, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Patrice NordmannEmerging Antibiotic Resistance Unit, Medical and Molecular Microbiology, Department of Medicine, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 18, CH-1700, Fribourg, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1343-1622
Laurent PoirelEmerging Antibiotic Resistance Unit, Medical and Molecular Microbiology, Department of Medicine, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 18, CH-1700, Fribourg, Switzerland. laurent.poirel@unifr.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5160-5286
University of Fribourg · CH

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeTo evaluate the different present and future therapeutic β-lactam/β-lactamase inhibitor (BL/BLI) alternatives, namely aztreonam-avibactam, imipenem-relebactam, meropenem-vaborbactam, cefepime-zidebactam, cefepime-taniborbactam, meropenem-nacubactam, and sulbactam-durlobactam against clinical isolates showing reduced susceptibility or resistance to cefiderocol in Enterobacterales, Acinetobacter baumannii, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

methodsMIC values of aztreonam, aztreonam-avibactam, cefepime, cefepime-taniborbactam, cefepime-zidebactam, imipenem, imipenem-relebactam, meropenem, meropenem-vaborbactam, meropenem-nacubactam, sulbactam-durlobactam, and cefiderocol combined with a BLI were determined for 67, 9, and 11 clinical Enterobacterales, P. aeruginosa or A. baumannii isolates, respectively, showing MIC values of cefiderocol being ≥1 mg/L. If unavailable, the respective β-lactam breakpoints according to EUCAST were used for BL/BLI combinations.

resultsFor Enterobacterales, the susceptibility rates for aztreonam, cefepime, imipenem, and meropenem were 7.5%, 0%, 10.4%, and 10.4%, respectively, while they were much higher for cefepime-zidebactam (91%), cefiderocol-zidebactam (91%), meropenem-nacubactam (71.6%), cefiderocol-nacubactam (74.6%), and cefiderocol-taniborbactam (76.1%), as expected. For P. aeruginosa isolates, the higher susceptibility rates were observed for imipenem-relebactam, cefiderocol-zidebactam, and meropenem-vaborbactam (56% for all combinations). For A. baumannii isolates, lower susceptibility rates were observed with commercially or under development BL/BLI combos; however, a high susceptibility rate (70%) was found for sulbactam-durlobactam and when cefiderocol was associated to some BLIs.

conclusionsZidebactam- and nacubactam-containing combinations showed a significant in vitro activity against multidrug-resistant Enterobacterales clinical isolates with reduced susceptibility to cefiderocol. On the other hand, imipenem-relebactam and meropenem-vaborbactam showed the highest susceptibility rates against P. aeruginosa isolates. Finally, sulbactam-durlobactam and cefiderocol combined with a BLI were the only effective options against A. baumannii tested isolates.

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Azabicyclo CompoundsAztreonamBorinic AcidsBoronic AcidsCarboxylic AcidsCefiderocolCyclooctanesLactamsPiperidinesAnti-Bacterial Agentsbeta-Lactamase Inhibitorsbeta-LactamasesCefepimeCephalosporinsHumansImipenemAnti-Bacterial AgentsavibactamAzabicyclo CompoundsAztreonambeta-Lactamase Inhibitorsbeta-LactamasesBorinic AcidsBoronic AcidsCarboxylic AcidsCefepimeCefiderocolCephalosporinsCyclooctanesImipenemLactamsMeropenemnacubactamPiperidinesrelebactamtaniborbactamvaborbactamzidebactamAvibactamCefiderocolNacubactamRelebactamTaniborbactamVaborbactamZidebactamβ-Lactamase

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PMID38095831
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