The investigators aimed to confirm the utility of the synergy test results (E-tesT) in vitro to predict the efficacy and safety of colistin-rifampin combination and colistin monotherapy in extensively drug-resistant acinetobacter baumannii.
We will searched pneumonia patients with CoRAB in Gangnam Severance Hospital. Subjects will be enrolled and randomized in a blinded fashion using a computerized random number generator (permuted-block randomization) for treatment with colistin and rifampin combination and colistin only at a ratio of 1:1. We will perform the E-test MIC:MIC ratio method to predict in vitro synergy of colistin and rifampin combination therapy.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
9
Colistin (100 mg, colistin sodium methanesulfonate, SCD Pharm., Seoul, Korea) will be intravenously administered with 100 mL of normal saline with 8 hours interval. Rifampin (600 mg, rifampin, Yuhan, Seoul, Korea) will be orally administered daily. Treatment should be maintained daily administration for at least 7 days and up to 28 days. Duration of antibiotics treatment will be determined through discussion by pulmonology and infection specialist.
. Colistin (100 mg, colistin sodium methanesulfonate, SCD Pharm., Seoul, Korea) will be intravenously administered with 100 mL of normal saline with 8 hours interval. Treatment should be maintained daily administration for at least 7 days and up to 28 days. Duration of antibiotics treatment wil be determined through discussion by pulmonology and infection specialist .
microbiologic response
negative conversion of culture study (eradication)
Time frame: 14 days
clinical response
clinical resolution of fever, symptoms and infectious sign
Time frame: 14 days
mortality
mortality
Time frame: 30 days
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