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. 2020 Mar 2;7(5):ofaa071. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa071

Table 1.

Clinical Characteristics of Patients With 30-Day Mortality

Case Age, Sex Pathogen Culture Specimen Infection Source ERV Start, h ERV Duration, d APACHE II SOFA Score ICU Stay, d Prior Active Antimicrobial Therapy Combination Antimicrobial Therapy With ERV Days to Mortality 30-Day Recurrence Reason for ERV Selection
1 48 F Proteus mirabilis Enterococcus faecium Blooda Urinary 8 3 21 4 20 AMK, CZA, IPM, MEM, C/T CZA 5 No Consolidation of therapy regimen
2 53 M Escherichia coli Fluid Intra-abdominal NAb 26.5 11 4 26 None None 26 No Double coverage for suspected CREe
3 54 M Stenotrophomonas maltophilia Blooda Respiratory 2.5 13.5 23 8 45 None None 16 No Pathogen resistant to LVX and SXT
4 61 M Enterococcus faecium Klebsiella pneumoniae Fluid Intra-abdominal NAb 9.5 24 14 63 MEM, TZP None 22 No Concern for polymicrobial infection
5 77 F Acinetobacter baumannii Enterobacter cloacae Escherichia coli Tissue Skin/soft tissue 19 15.5 15 1 1 TGC None 15 No Preference to TGC due to adverse event profile
6 65 M Acinetobacter baumannii BAL Respiratory 20 12 26 4 20 AMK, CZA, IPM, MEM, C/T, CZA CZA 13 No Recurrent infection with previous regimens of TGC and TOB
7 69 M Enterococcus faecium Bacteroides fragilis Blooda Fluidc Intra-abdominal 7 28 15 2 22 None DAP LZD 28 Yesd Persistent VRE bloodstream infection
8 59 F None: empiric coverage per patient history None f Respiratory NAg 3 21 3 4 None MEM, VAN 26 No Drug rash to CZA and double coverage for suspected CRE
9 62 M Escherichia coli Klebsiella aerogenes Enterococcus faecalis Blooda Intra-abdominal 1.5 3 28 4 5 MEM, TZP, VAN MEM, MTZ 20 No Consolidation of therapy regimen

Abbreviations: AMK, amikacin; BAL, bronchoalveolar lavage; CRE, carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae; C/T, ceftolozane-tazobactam; CAZ, ceftazidime; CZA, ceftazidime/avibactam; DAP, daptomycin; ERV, eravacycline; F, female; FEP, cefepime; IPM, imipenem; LVX, levofloxacin; LZD, linezolid; M, male; MEM, meropenem; MTZ, metronidazole; NA, not applicable; PMB, polymyxin B; SXT, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole; TOB, tobramycin; TGC, tigecycline; TZP, piperacillin-tazobactam; VAN, vancomycin; VRE, vancomycin-resistant enterococci.

aAll cases have cleared their blood cultures. Cases 1 and 7 used ERV after blood culture clearance, whereas cases 3 and 9 used ERV before blood culture clearance.

bTime to ERV administration from positive culture was not possible to calculate because patient was a transfer with no documentation of timing of first culture in cases 2 and 3, while in case 8 no culture was isolated from the patient (empiric therapy).

c Enterococcus faecium growing from blood and Bacteroides fragilis from fluid.

dThe subject’s symptoms resolved initially, but the subject had a 30-day recurrence, followed by 30-day mortality.

ePatient was administered eravacycline for the purpose of double coverage at another institution before referral to the current institution. In the current study institution, no double coverage or combination agent was administered.

fNo organisms were isolated because the regimen was empiric.

gTime to ERV administration from positive culture was not possible to calculate because therapy was empiric with no culture.