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Filter by:Inappropriate antibiotic therapy in ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is associated with increased mortality. The international guidelines recommend using broad spectrum antimicrobials especially in patients who received previous antimicrobials, with risk factors of muti-drug resistant (MDR) VAP or after 5 days of mechanical ventilation. Using broad-spectrum antibiotics for 48h until the results of conventional cultures and antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) are available, may promote the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria. Exposure to imipenem, as short as 1 to 3 days, is associated with a 5-fold increase in the risk of imipenem resistance in the gut microbiota of ICU patients (Armand-Lefevre AAC 2013). Performing AST directly on clinical respiratory samples would hasten the process by at least 24h. The diagnostic performance of a rapid method combining mass spectrometry and direct AST [DAST] are previously analyzed, and compared it with the conventional method (mass spectrometry with conventional AST [CAST]) and its potential impact was assessed on antimicrobial use in 85 patients (Le DORZE M et al - Clin. Microbiol. Infect. 2015). The results produced by the dast were useable in 85,9% of the cases and the sensitivity and negative predictive values of DAST were 100% for all antibiotics tested, except gentamicin (97.1% [95%CI = 93.3-101] and 97.4% [93.7-101], respectively) and amikacin (88.9% [81.7-96.1] and 96.4% [92.1-100.7], respectively), compared with CAST. Specificity and positive predictive values ranged from 82.9 (74.2-91.5) to 100%, and from 86.4 (78.5−94.2) to 100%, respectively. If results had been reported to the clinicians, that DAST would have saved carbapenem prescription in 17 cases (22%) and would have allowed immediate narrow spectrum antimicrobials in 35/85 (41.2%) cases. But, the benefit of DAST was based on a simulation and should be now tested in a randomized fashion. This project is a prospective multicenter study. The hypothesis is that, DAST compared to CAST, would increase the number of adequate antimicrobial therapy within 24 hours in case of late VAP (> 5 days under mechanical ventilation) with Gram negative bacilli (GNB) in IC patients while sparing carbapenems (imipenem and meropenem). The primary objective is to determine the impact of a strategy using DAST on the rate of day1 adequate therapy without carbapenems in case of late VAP due to GNB.
The aim of this study is to assess the impact of Schistosoma mansoni infection and its treatment on genital immunology and HIV susceptibility in Ugandan women.
Autoimmune bullous dermatoses include pemphigus, bullous pemphigoid, pemphigoid gestationis, linear IgA dermatosis, mucous membrane pemphigoid, lichen planus pemphigoid, anti-p200 pemphigoid, epidermolysis bullosa acquisita and dermatitis herpetiformis. Autoimmune bullous dermatoses are rare and have an incidence of 20-60 new cases per 1 million person- year in Europe. The incidence of the individual entities is slight significantly different within Europe, but strongly also in comparison to other countries such as Kuwait, Singapore, USA and South America. The most common of these disorders is the bullous pemphigoid. A considerable progress has been made in the last years to elucidate the pathogenic role of autoantibodies in these diseases. To this end, various in vitro and animal experiments have been used to understand some basic pathophysiological mechanisms in these diseases. Further studies are currently being carried out to explain a precise elucidation of the disease process and to be able to treat the patients targeted later. At present, however, no data are available to explain why certain individuals develop the autoimmune disease and others do not. Epidemiological studies showed some triggers to the development of autoimmune dysregulation, e.g. drugs. Furthermore, it has been shown that genetic factors play a role in the pathogenesis of the disease. A clear association with certain HLA regions have been shown in patients with pemphigus, e.g. about 95% of pemphigus patients from the group of Ashkenazi Jews have the HLA-DRB1*0402 haplotype. Recently, the first non-HLA gene associated with pemphigus was described. For other conditions such as bullous pemphigoid, pemphigoid gestationis or linear IgA dermatosis the association with HLA antigens is less pronounced. Another indication of the importance of the genetic background in these diseases can be elucidated from the observation of autoantibodies at a low concentration in healthy relatives of pemphigus patients.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the benefit and tolerability of IQP-AS-119 for reduction of susceptibility to infections and other complaints after extreme physical stress (participation in a marathon).
This is a prospective case-control physiopathological study, which main objective is to determine the genetic host factors predisposing to candidemia. Secondary objectives are to develop new diagnosis tools using the biological collection, to describe and update epidemiology, to analyse the influence of genetic polymorphisms on prognosis.
Transversal multicentric French study on the microbiota in patients with Crohn's disease and their first degree healthy relatives The primary objective is the comparison of microbiota between patients with CD, healthy controls non genetically linked and first degree healthy relatives of patients with CD.
Upon penicillins' introduction, inactivation of beta- lactam antibiotics by enzymes produced by bacteria was demonstrated. Until recently, carbapenems were a relatively spared subclass by these enzymes which makes the molecules of last resort in serious infection. Recently the prevalence of enzymes hydrolysing carbapenem, the carbapenemases, was increasing in some countries. But these carbapenemases are not the only mechanism involved in a decreased susceptibility to carbapenems which is sometimes linked to the conjunction of several resistance mechanisms. Data available on the epidemic situation of this new resistance are essential for improving their detection, the management of infections in patients and prevent the occurrence of epidemic. In this context, the investigators propose a study in the North-East inter-region to estimate the prevalence of Enterobacteriaceae with decrease susceptibility to carbapenems and look for risk factors for infection with this type of bacteria. The study is conducted in five teaching hospitals (Besançon, Dijon, Nancy, Reims and Strasbourg) and two general hospitals (Colmar and Troyes) in North-Eastern France. For one year, all the Enterobacteriaceae isolates with a decreased susceptibility to carbapenems (CDSE) according to the 2012 Antibiogram Comity of the French Microbiology Society (CA-SFM) (MIC of ertapenem > 0.5 μg/mL) are collected and sent to the bacteriology laboratory of the Reims University Hospital. Among these strains 105 are randomly selected. The clinical study is conducted as follow: for each patient with CDSE isolate included in a center, 2 control patients are selected. They are the patients having the 2 Enterobacteriaceae isolates, with no reduced susceptibility to carbapenems and following the CDSE isolate in the same center. Microbiological study : identification of isolates is performed using MALDI-TOF (Bruker Daltonics, Bremen, Germany). Antibiotic susceptibilities is determined by the disc diffusion method according to European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) guidelines (www.EUCAST.org) and extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBLs) are detected by the double-disc synergy test and carbapenem minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs to Imipenem, Ertapenem, Doripenem and Meropenem) determined using E-test® strips. Metallo-β-lactamase production was screened with the MβL Etest (bioMérieux, Marcy l'Etoile, France). Beta-lactamases detected using polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Carbapenemase-encoding genes (blaKPC, blaVIM, blaIMP, blaNDM, blaOXA-23-like, blaOXA-24-like, blaOXA-58-like and blaOXA-48-like) were screened using multiplex PCRs and blaIMI and blaGES with simplex PCRs. All the blaOXA-48-like detected were subsequently sequenced. Genes blaTEM, blaSHV, blaCTX-M and blaOXA were detected by PCR using specific primers. Plasmid-mediated AmpC-type genes blaACC, blaFOX, blaMOX, blaDHA, blaCMY and blaMIR were screened using multiplex PCRs. All the beta-lactamases are sequenced. Mutations in the quinolone resistance determining region (QRDR) are identified by PCR and sequencing in the gyrA, gyrB, parC and parE genes. Qnr and qepA genes are detected by real-time PCR, aac(6')-Ib-cr by pyrosequencing and oqxAB by conventional PCR. Genotyping is performed with pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and multilocus sequence typing (MLST). Statistical analysis : qualitative variables are analysed with the Chi2 test and the two-tailed Fisher exact test. Quantitative variables are compared using the Mann-Whitney test. Then, a multivariate analysis is conducted: logistic regression with stepwise factors as explanatory variables with p <0.20 in the univariate analysis as input threshold and output set at 0.20.The results are considered statistically significant when P < 0.05. Expected results : this study will give the proportion of the different species involved, of the carbapenemase in comparison to the other mechanisms, the level of resistance in MIC. Risk factors such as previous antibiotic treatment, underlying disease severity or clonal strain transmission will be evidenced, allowing to identify prevention control measure to implement.
Enterobacteria constitute a family of Gram negative bacilli of the gastrointestinal flora. These micro-organisms are frequently responsible for nosocomial or community-acquired infections, for which treatment is essentially based on the use of beta-lactam antibiotics. This class of antibiotics comprises penicillins, cephalosporins, monobactams and carbapenems. Carbapenems have the advantage of possessing a broad antibacterial spectrum and the capacity to resist the hydrolytic action of a large number of beta-lactamases, widespread inactivating enzymes. However, new enzymes, called carbapenemases, able to confer resistance to carbapenems either alone or in combination with additional resistance mechanisms such as loss of membrane permeability or overexpression of efflux systems, are currently emerging all over the world. Carbapenemases represent a major public health problem because of the risk of therapeutic impasse and their high epidemic potential.
Helicobacter pylori eradication (H. pylori) rates with clarithromycin-based triple therapy are declining, and an alternative strategy is needed urgently. The investigators sought to compare the efficacy of pretreatment antimicrobial susceptibility-guided vs. clarithromycin-based triple therapy vs. concomitant therapy for H. pylori eradication in a region with high rates of multiple drug resistance.
The main objective of the study is to define, for Autism Spectrum Disorder, the extent of genetic variation in synaptic pathways that may be targeted for therapeutic development. For this purpose the investigators will take advantage of large, well-characterized cohorts of patients with Autism Spectrum Disorder for genetic screenings. Targeted sequencing of selected synaptic genes, previously associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder, will be carried out in these cohorts with deep coverage of coding regions and a strong focus on previously untested regulatory regions. Genomic data from Copy Number Variant, whole genome sequencing and exome sequencing, available for some of these patients, will be integrated in the overall analysis. The investigators will strongly emphasize the establishment of comprehensive genotype/phenotype correlations and set up an induced Pluripotent Stem Cells collection from selected patients with synaptic mutations for functional and expression analysis.