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ArticleOpen forum infectious diseases2024

Combination of Antistaphylococcal β-Lactam With Standard Therapy Compared to Standard Therapy Alone for the Treatment of Methicillin-Resistant

Neta Petersiel, Joshua S Davis, Niamh Meagher, David J Price, Steven Y C Tong, Combination Antibiotics for MEthicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CAMERA2) Study Group

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Article in Open forum infectious diseases, 2024. 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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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. β-Lactam Adjunctive Therapy Compared to Vancomycin or Daptomycin Monotherapy in Adult Patients With Methicillin-ResistantThe Canadian journal of infectious diseases & medical microbiology = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses et de la microbiologie medicale · 2025
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  4. Adjunctive β-lactams forTherapeutic advances in infectious disease
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Neta PetersielVictorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1981-3848
Joshua S DavisDevision of Global and Tropical Health, Menzies School of Health Research and Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
Niamh MeagherDepartment of Infectious Diseases, University of Melbourne at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
David J PriceDepartment of Infectious Diseases, University of Melbourne at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Steven Y C TongVictorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1368-8356
Combination Antibiotics for MEthicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CAMERA2) Study Group

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Desirability of outcome ranking (DOOR) is an emerging approach to clinical trial outcome measurement using an ordinal scale to incorporate efficacy and safety endpoints. Methods: We applied a previously validated DOOR endpoint to a cohort of CAMERA2 trial participants with methicillin-resistant Results: Participants assigned combination therapy had a 54.5% (95% confidence interval [CI], 48.9%-60.1%; Conclusions: When considering both efficacy and safety, treatment of MRSAB with a combination of standard therapy and a β-lactam likely results in a worse clinical outcome than standard therapy. However, a small benefit of combination therapy cannot be excluded. Most likely the toxicity of combination therapy outweighed any benefit from faster clearance of bacteremia.

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bacteremiabloodstream infectionDOORmethicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureusMRSA

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PMID38698894
PMCPMC11065345

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