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Filter by:This is an prospective observational study assessing the effect of vitamin B12 on the odds of developing sepsis in patients with infection confirmed by a positive culture result. The hypothesis is that patients with infection confirmed by positive cultures who develop sepsis have lower vitamin B12 levels than patients infection, confirmed by positive cultures, who do not develop sepsis.
Background: Survival in Granzyme A gene (gzmA) knocked-out mice was significantly longer than in wild-type mice in a murine peritonitis model (cecal ligation puncture). Hypothesis: GZM A has a pathogenic role in sepsis in humans and gzmA polymorphisms can help to predict the risk of sepsis among patients with systemic infections (E. coli bacteremic urinary tract infections). Objectives: 1. To assess the correlation between GZM A serum levels and systemic inflammatory response in a human model of infection/sepsis (E. coli bacteremic UTI) 2. To characterize gzmA polymorphisms among patients with E. coli bacteremic UTI 3. To determine GZM A serum kinetics among patients with E. coli bacteremic UTI 4. To characterize E. coli strains causing bacteremic UTI: antimicrobial phenotype and virulence factors ("virulome"). Methods: - Design and setting: Prospective nested case-control study - Study population: consecutive adult patients with bacteremic urinary tract infections (UTIs) caused by E. coli - Exclusion criteria: Patients with conditions that significantly compromise immune status or patients exposed to urologic procedures - Estimated sample size: 50 patients with a sepsis/ non sepsis 1:1 ratio. Septic and non septic patients will be matched on gender, age (+/- 10 years), comorbidity (Charlson score +/-1), time symptom onset to blood culture (+/- 24h) - Measurements: GZM A serum levels will be determined on day 0, day 2-3, day 30. GZM A kinetics, gzmA polymorphisms (whole exome sequencing).Whole genome sequencing of E. coli isolates retrieved from blood cultures will be performed. - Analysis: Association between GZM A levels and gzmA polymorphisms and sepsis will be analyzed adjusting for patient, infection and microorganism-related factors (multivariate analysis).
Primary objective of the study is to establish the incidence of all any catheter related complications in BIP CVC and standard CVC groups in patients requiring CVC. (CVC - Central Venous Catheter; BIP - Bactiguard Infection Protection)
Background: Despite management improvement in lasts years, S.aureus bacteremia leads to high morbidity and mortality. For over 50 years, methicillin-susceptible S.aureus (MSSA) bacteremia standard treatment was cloxacillin. Previous studies using different therapies and combination treatment fall to improve survival in these patients. Aim: to demonstrate the efficacy of the cloxacillin and fosfomycin combination administered during the first week of treatment, compared with cloxacillin monotherapy in patients with MSSA bacteremia in treatment success. Methods: A multicentre, superiority, open-label, randomized, phase IV-III, two-armed parallel (1:1) groups clinical trial. Adult patients with MSSA bacteremia will be randomized to Combination therapy group: patients will receive intravenous cloxacillin 2g/4h and fosfomycin 3 g/6h for the duration of 7 days treatment, or Standard therapy group: patients will receive intravenous cloxacillin 2g/4h for the duration of 7 days IV treatment. After the first week, antibiotic treatment and duration will be decided by responsible clinician following clinical practice. The primary endpoint is the treatment success measured at day 7 of treatment; a composite endpoint defined by all of the following criteria met after randomization: patient alive at day 7 AND stable or improved quick SOFA score (compared with baseline) at day 7 AND fever resolved at day 7 AND negative blood cultures for S. aureus at day 7. In case of achieving statistical differences in the primary endpoint, investigators will perform a hierarchical analysis of the treatment success at Test of Cure visit (TOC, 12 weeks after randomization), defined by the presence of all of the following: patient alive at TOC AND no evidence of microbiological treatment failure defined as isolation of S. aureus from blood culture or other sterile site from day 8 after randomization until TOC. Investigators have assumed a 74% of treatment success in monotherapy group. Accepting an alpha risk of 0.05 and a beta risk of 0.2 in a two-sided test, 183 subjects are necessary in first group and 183 in the second to find a statistically significant difference of 12%. It has been anticipated a drop-out rate of 5%. Discussion: Randomized studies assessing efficacy of different treatment in MSSA bacteremia are lacking. This study could help to improve knowledge about MSSA bacteremia and whether combined treatment with cloxacillin and fosfomycin could improve outcomes compared with standard treatment.
Eurobact II will investigate the mortality and morbidity of hospital-acquired blood stream infections in patients treated in intensive care units (ICU). It will investigate the effects of the micro-organism and its characteristics, such as type and resistance to antibiotics on the infection and its consequences. It will also investigate the effects of the antibiotics and other treatments on survival of patients. Eurobact II will include patients from multiple ICUs in multiple countries.
This study aims to assess whether ertapenem as an empiric treatment of third-generation-cephalosporin resistant Enterobacteriaceae (3GCRE) bacteremia is non-inferior to other carbapenems in term of 30-day mortality.
Study of incidence and risk factors of staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in patients with rheumatoid arthritis compared with the general population in a nationwide cohort of all adult members of the population from 1996 until 2017 using national registries
This is a 2-part study, with Part A being the randomized, controlled portion of the study in patients with ABC hospital-acquired bacterial pneumonia (HABP), ventilator-associated bacterial pneumonia (VABP), or bacteremia. Part B is the single-group portion of the study and includes ABC infections that are resistant to or have failed colistin or polymyxin B treatment, as detailed in the inclusion criteria.
This study evaluates the clinical benefit of a rapid test for fast diagnosis of bacteremia and fungemia from positive blood cultures in case of sepsis. This assay enables rapid identification of bacteria and fungi and allows to evaluate bacterial resistance to first line antibiotics. The clinical and medico-economic impact of this assay used in addition to the current diagnosis strategy (half of the patients) will be compared to the current diagnostic strategy alone (other half of the patient).
Sepsis is a life-threatening disease caused by a dysregulated host response to infection. This can lead to organ-dysfunction and septic shock, which is a subset of sepsis where underlying abnormalities increase mortality remarkably. Blood cultures are the gold standard for identifying pathogens in the bloodstream (bacteremia). It is based on cultivation techniques which, theoretically, can detect a single pathogenic cell from a patient sample. However, blood cultures have serious limitations, such as long time to result (3-7 days). This leads to the fact that only a small fraction of the patients obtain a correct diagnosis and in further consequence get the optimal antimicrobial treatment. Patients with sepsis should get antimicrobial treatment within the hour. Thus, physicians start treatment empirically, with broad-spectrum antibiotics. This puts a selective pressure on pathogens and has led to an increased amount of antibiotic resistance. Faster diagnostics are necessary to ensure an immediate and targeted treatment. In the EU-funded FAPIC project, two diagnostic systems that can be used with direct sample material from patients will be developed, avoiding the time-consuming cultivation of pathogens. In this study, the evaluation of the rapid diagnostics will be performed in patients with sepsis, suspected of bacteremia. To this aim, the performance of the diagnostic systems will be evaluated using blood samples that are collected in parallel with blood cultures. In addition, clinical data of the patients will be collected. In routine care, two blood culture sets (2x2 bottles) per patient are collected. One extra blood samples (EDTA, 9 ml) will be sampled with each blood culture set, totaling 2 samples per patient. In this study, patients presenting at the Emergency Department (ED), and the department of infectious diseases/nephrology will be included. The results will be used to estimate the performance, sensitivity, and specificity of the diagnostic systems compared to blood culture. Furthermore, in order to determine the severity of sepsis and to describe the patient population, clinically relevant parameters and laboratory parameters (ferritin, HLA-DR, serum lactate, SOFA score) will be assessed to determine its association with severity of disease and patient mortality. Evaluation will be done exclusively in the lab, and will not be used directly for the diagnosis or management of patients. Standard care will still be provided.