Uptake in newly approved antibiotics prescribed to patients with carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE).

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol

Department of Veterans' Affairs, Center of Innovation for Complex Chronic Healthcare, Edward Hines Jr VA Hospital, Hines, Illinois.

Published: April 2023

We assessed trends in treatment of patients with CRE from 2012 through 2018. We detected decreased utilization of aminoglycosides and colistin and increased utilization in extended-spectrum cephalosporins and ceftazidime-avibactam. We found significant uptake of ceftazidime-avibactam, a newly approved antibiotic, to treat CRE infections.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10466386PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2021.452DOI Listing

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