Oral ciprofloxacin plus colistin: prophylaxis against bacterial infection in neutropenic patients. A strategy for the prevention of emergence of antimicrobial resistance
Oral ciprofloxacin plus colistin: prophylaxis against bacterial infection in neutropenic patients. A strategy for the prevention of emergence of antimicrobial resistance
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DOI:
10.1046/j.1365-2141.2001.03034.x
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发表时间:
2001-10-01
影响因子:
6.5
通讯作者:
Kibbler, CC
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作者:
Prentice, HG;Hann, IM;Kibbler, CC
Following a 2-year study, the combination of oral ciprofloxacin and colistin has been used continuously for 10 years without the emergence of resistance. During a 2-year period (1987-1989), we compared ciprofloxacin + colistin (CIP + COL) with neomycin + colistin (NEO + - COL) in a randomized trial - combinations chosen because of the potential for prophylaxis of Gram-negative infection by ciprofloxacin, with colistin given to reduce the risk of emergence of resistance. Sixty-four patients with similar demographics in each arm were evaluable for efficacy analysis. Patients on CIP + COL had a significantly lower proportion of neutropenic days with fever (P < 0.001) and neutropenic days on intravenous antibiotics (P < 0.001) than patients on NEO + COL. A total of 54 (15 bacteriologically documented) pyrexial episodes occurred in patients on CIP + COL and 77 (41 bacteriologically documented) in patients on NEO + COL. Only two Gramnegative bacterial infections occurred lathe CIP + COL arm compared with 16 in the NEO + COL arm. No Staphylococcus aureus infections occurred in the CIP + COL group compared with 10 in the other patients. Two CIP-resistant Gram-negative bacilli were isolated from patients cu CIP + COL compared with 13 NEO-resistant Gram-negative bacilli from patients on NEO + COL. Following a subsequent decade of unchanged use of this prophylactic strategy in neutropenic patients, a 2-year follow-up study between I January 1998 and 31 December 1999 showed 66 significant infections during 350-400 neutropenic episodes. Eight of the 111 (7.2%) isolates were with ciprofloxacin-resistant organisms, involving 2% of the neutropenic episodes, indicating that the strategy of combining colistin with ciprofloxacin has been effective in the prevention of Gram-negative sepsis in neutropenic patients without the emergence of significant resistance despite widespread concurrent hospital and community use of the quinolones.