Gentamicin therapy for sepsis due to carbapenem-resistant and colistin-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae
Author(s) -
Marcelino González-Padilla,
Julián TorreCisneros,
F. Rivera-Espinar,
Antonio Pontes-Moreno,
Lorena LópezCerero,
Álvaro Pascual,
C. Natera,
Miguel Ángel Morán Rodríguez,
Inmaculada Salcedo-Leal,
Fernando Rodríguez-López,
Antonio Rivero,
Jesús RodríguezBaño
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124
H-Index - 194
eISSN - 1460-2091
pISSN - 0305-7453
DOI - 10.1093/jac/dku432
Subject(s) - klebsiella pneumoniae , colistin , medicine , gentamicin , tigecycline , carbapenem , proportional hazards model , sepsis , mortality rate , retrospective cohort study , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , antibiotics , biochemistry , escherichia coli , gene
Antimicrobial therapy for sepsis caused by carbapenem- and colistin-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae is not well established. We hypothesized that the early use of gentamicin in cases due to susceptible organisms would decrease the crude mortality rate of this infection.
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