- Title
- Risk factors for relapse or persistence of bacteraemia caused by Enterobacter spp.: a case-control study
- Creator
- Harris, Patrick N. A.; Peri, Anna M.; Pelecanos, Anita M.; Hughes, Carly M.; Paterson, David L.; Ferguson, John K.
- Relation
- Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control Vol. 6, Issue 14
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13756-017-0177-0
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- Background: Enterobacter spp. possess chromosomal AmpC beta-lactamases that may be expressed at high levels. Previous studies have demonstrated a risk of relapsed bacteraemia following therapy with third generation cephalosporins (3GCs). What additional factors predict microbiological failure in Enterobacter bacteraemia is unclear. We aimed to determine factors associated with microbiological failure in Enterobacter bacteraemia. Methods: We retrospectively identified cases of bacteraemia caused by Enterobacter spp. occurring in four hospitals. Using a case-control design, we determined clinical risk factors for persistence or relapse defined as repeated positive blood cultures collected between 72 hours and up to 28 days post initial positive blood culture. Results: During the study period a total of 922 bacteraemia events caused by Enterobacter spp. in adults were identified. The overall risk of relapsed or persisting bacteraemia at 28 days was low (31 of 922, 3.4%), with only 2 patients experiencing emergent resistance to 3GCs. A total of 159 patients were included in the case-control study. Using multivariate logistic regression, independent predictors for relapse were a line-associated source of infection (OR 3.87; 95% CI 1.56-9.60, p = 0.004) and the presence of immunosuppression (OR 2.70; 95% CI 1.14-6.44, p = 0.02). On univariate analysis definitive therapy with a broad-spectrum beta-lactam-beta-lactamase inhibitor (BLBLI, e.g. piperacillin-tazobactam) was not associated with relapse (OR 1.83; 95% CI 0.64-5.21, p = 0.26) although the proportion of patients receiving a BLBLI as definitive therapy was relatively small (21/159, 13.2%). Conclusions: The risk of relapsed or persistent Enterobacter bacteraemia appears to be low in Australia. A line-associated source of infection and immunocompromise were significant independent predictors for relapse. Larger, preferably randomized, studies are needed to address whether BLBLIs represent an effective carbapenem-sparing option for Enterobacter bacteraemia.
- Subject
- Enterobacter cloacae; Enterobacter aerogenes; Beta-lactamase; AmpC,; bacteraemia; outcomes; relapse; treatment
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1389818
- Identifier
- uon:32931
- Identifier
- ISSN:2047-2994
- Rights
- © The Author(s). 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
- Language
- eng
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