Risk of SARS-CoV-2 reinfection after natural infection.
Risk of SARS-CoV-2 reinfection after natural infection.
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DOI:
10.1016/s0140-6736(21)00662-0
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2021-03-27
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Altmann DM
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Boyton RJ;Altmann DM
substantial group of patients who can safely be treated with 3 days of antibiotics. However, of the 706 patients assessed for eligibility on day 3 of therapy, only 310 were eligible for randomisation. Of the 396 who were excluded, many had reasons that would restrict the use of short duration therapy in any health-care setting: 122 were not clinically stable, 80 had severe or complicated community-acquired pneumonia, 22 were homeless or had other reasons that meant they could not be followed up closely, and 80 had advanced renal failure. Why the comparator group was treated for 8 days is unclear, when 5 days are recommended by most experts for patients admitted to hospital with uncomplicated communityacquired pneumonia. No data were provided on the cause of community-acquired pneumonia in this cohort, which is of specific interest because a high prevalence of viral infections has been reported in patients with community-acquired pneumonia. 9 Since many patients with mild illness might have had a non-bacterial cause, it is unlikely that antibiotics, of any duration, could affect their outcome. In fact, among the 50 patients in the placebo group and 57 in the β-lactam group who had procalcitonin levels measured at baseline, those in the β-lactam group had lower levels than those in the placebo group (0· 20 μmol/L vs0· 55 μmol/L), implying that more patients in the β-lactam group might have had non-bacterial illness and thus no real chance to benefit from extended therapy. 6 Ideally, a study of the duration of therapy should have included only those with bacterial or atypical pathogen infection. However, monotherapy with a β-lactam, as used in Dinh and colleagues’ study (US guidelines recommend either a β-lactam plus macrolide combination or fluoroquinolone monotherapy), provides no coverage for atypical pathogens, and could have masked any differences related to duration of therapy. On the basis of the data from this study, we do not feel that 3 days of treatment can be recommended routinely for patients admitted to hospital for communityacquired pneumonia. We feel that a study using the key features of the current double-blind randomised design should be done, but with more seriously ill patients, with data examining cause of illness, excluding those without documented bacterial or atypical pathogen infection, and taking into account both β-lactam plus macrolide and fluoroquinolone based treatment regimens.MSN reports grants and personal fees from Shionogi, personal fees from Bayer, Nabriva, and Paratek outside of the area of work commented on here; and has consulted for Fisher Diagnostics on the topic of antimicrobial stewardship of pneumonia. LAM reports personal fees from Merck, Daiichi-Sankyo, Sunovion, and Covance outside of the area of work commented on here.