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ArticleAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Clinical Efficacy of Sitafloxacin-Colistin-Meropenem and Colistin-Meropenem in Patients with Carbapenem-Resistant and Multidrug-Resistant

Manasawee Wantanatavatod, Panuwat Wongkulab

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Article in Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 52% 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

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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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Whether to continue combining carbapenems to treat carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii nosocomial pneumonia in critically ill patients: a retrospective efficacy and safety analysis.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2025
    Article
  2. The Mortality of Colistin MonotherapyInfection & chemotherapy · 2025
    Article
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Manasawee WantanatavatodDivision of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Rajavithi Hospital, Bangkok 10400, Thailand.ORCID 0009-0006-0037-2834
Panuwat WongkulabDivision of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Rajavithi Hospital, Bangkok 10400, Thailand.ORCID 0000-0003-0231-9659
Rajavithi Hospital · TH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundCarbapenem-resistant

methodAn open-label, randomized, superiority, single-blind trial was conducted in Rajavithi Hospital, a super-tertiary care facility in Bangkok, Thailand. CRAB HAP/VAP patients were randomly assigned to receive either sitafloxacin-colistin-meropenem or colistin-meropenem. Outcomes in the two groups were then assessed with respect to mortality, clinical response, and adverse effects.

resultBetween April 2021 and April 2022, 77 patients were treated with combinations of either sitafloxacin plus colistin plus meropenem (

conclusionsAdding sitafloxacin as a third agent to meropenem plus colistin could improve clinical outcomes in CRAB HAP/VAP with little or no impact on adverse effects. In short, sitafloxacin-meropenem-colistin could be another therapeutic option for combatting CRAB HAP/VAP.

Indexed as

Acinetobacter baumanniicarbapenem-resistantHAP/VAPsitafloxacin

Identifiers

PMID38391523
PMCPMC10886248
OpenAlexW4391351402

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