Impact of Susceptibility to Injectable Antibiotics on the Treatment Outcomes of Mycobacterium abscessus Pulmonary Disease
- Abstract
- Background: Current guidelines recommend a susceptibility-based regimen for Mycobacterium abscessus subspecies abscessus pulmonary disease (MAB-PD), but the evidence is weak. We aimed to investigate the association between treatment outcomes and in vitro drug susceptibility to injectable antibiotics in MAB-PD patients.
Methods: We enrolled MAB-PD patients treated with intravenous amikacin and beta-lactams for ≥4 weeks at 4 referral hospitals in Seoul, South Korea. Culture conversion and microbiological cure at 1 year were evaluated based on susceptibility to injectable antibiotics among patients treated with those antibiotics for ≥2 weeks.
Results: A total of 82 patients were analyzed. The mean age was 58.7 years, and 65.9% were women. Sputum culture conversion and microbiological cure were achieved in 52.4% and 41.5% of patients, respectively. Amikacin was the most common agent to which the M. abscessus subspecies abscessus isolates were susceptible (81.7%); 9.8% and 24.0% of the isolates were resistant to cefoxitin and imipenem, respectively. The clarithromycin-inducible resistance (IR) group (n = 65) had a lower microbiological cure rate than the clarithromycin-susceptible group (35.4% vs 64.7%). The treatment outcomes appeared to be similar regardless of in vitro susceptibility results with regard to intravenous amikacin, cefoxitin, imipenem, and moxifloxacin. In the subgroup analysis of the clarithromycin-IR group, the treatment outcomes did not differ according to antibiotic susceptibility.
Conclusions: We did not find evidence supporting the use of susceptibility-based treatment with intravenous amikacin and beta-lactams in patients with MAB-PD. Further research is required.
Keywords: Mycobacterium abscessus; amikacin; beta-lactams; microbial sensitivity tests; nontuberculous mycobacteria; treatment outcome.
- Author(s)
- 심태선; 조경욱; Byung Woo Jhun; Jae-Joon Yim; Jimyung Park; Nakwon Kwak; Yea Eun Park; Young Ae Kang; Youngmok Park
- Issued Date
- 2021
- Type
- Article
- Keyword
- AcademicSubjects; amikacin; beta-lactams; Editor's choice; Major; MED00290; microbial sensitivity tests; Mycobacterium abscessus; nontuberculous mycobacteria; treatment outcome
- DOI
- 10.1093/ofid/ofab215
- URI
- https://oak.ulsan.ac.kr/handle/2021.oak/7123
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- Publisher
- Open Forum Infectious Diseases
- Location
- 미국
- Language
- 영어
- ISSN
- 2328-8957
- Citation Volume
- 8
- Citation Number
- 6
- Citation Start Page
- 215
- Citation End Page
- 215
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