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. 2021 Oct 16;41(2):319–324. doi: 10.1007/s10096-021-04363-7

Table 2.

Antimicrobial activity of ceftazidime-avibactam, ceftolozane-tazobactam, meropenem-vaborbactam, imipenem-relebactam, and comparators against resistant subsets of P. aeruginosa isolates from patients with pneumonia in European hospitals in 2020

Resistant phenotype % Susceptible per EUCAST (no. of isolates)
W-EU E-EU All isolates
Piperacillin-tazobactam-resistant (MIC > 16 mg/L) (102) (51) (153)
 Ceftazidime-avibactam 91.2 70.6 84.3
 Ceftolozane-tazobactam 78.4 70.0 75.7
 Imipenem-relebactam 83.3 78.4 81.7
 Meropenem-vaborbactam 69.6 49.0 62.7
Meropenem-resistant (MIC > 8 mg/L) (39) (31) (70)
 Ceftazidime-avibactam 81.6 54.8 69.9
 Ceftolozane-tazobactam 59.0 54.8 57.1
 Imipenem-relebactam 53.8 64.5 58.6
 Meropenem-vaborbactam 7.7 3.2 5.7
Imipenem-resistant (MIC > 4 mg/L) (96) (59) (155)
 Ceftazidime-avibactam 92.6 78.0 87.0
 Ceftolozane-tazobactam 84.4 78.0 81.9
 Imipenem-relebactam 77.1 81.4 78.7
 Meropenem-vaborbactam 63.5 52.5 59.4
Ceftazidime-resistant (MIC > 8 mg/L) (90) (39) (129)
 Ceftazidime-avibactam 87.8 61.5 79.8
 Ceftolozane-tazobactam 75.6 61.5 71.3
 Imipenem-relebactam 81.1 74.4 79.1
 Meropenem-vaborbactam 72.2 46.2 64.3
β-lactam-resistanta (16) (9) (25)
 Ceftazidime-avibactam 81.2 33.3 64.0
 Ceftolozane-tazobactam 43.8 55.6 48.0
 Imipenem-relebactam 43.8 55.6 48.0
 Meropenem-vaborbactam 6.2 0.0 4.0

aIsolates resistant to piperacillin-tazobactam (MIC > 16 mg/L), meropenem (MIC > 8 mg/L), imipenem(MIC > 4 mg/L), and ceftazidime (MIC > 8 mg/L) per EUCAST criteria [13]

Abbreviations: W-EU Western Europe, E-EU Eastern Europe