Adjunctive rifampicin to reduce early mortality from Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia: the ARREST RCT
Author(s) -
Guy Thwaites,
Matthew Scarborough,
Alexander J. Szubert,
Pedro Saramago,
Marta Soares,
Jennifer Bostock,
Emmanuel Nsutebu,
Robert Tilley,
Richard Cunningham,
Julia Greig,
Sarah Wyllie,
Peter Wilson,
Cressida Auckland,
Janet Cairns,
Denise Ward,
Pankaj Lal,
Achyut Guleri,
Neil Jenkins,
Julian Sutton,
Martin Wiselka,
Armando González-Ruiz,
Clive Graham,
Paul Chadwick,
Gavin Barlow,
N Claire Gordon,
Bernadette C. Young,
Sarah Meisner,
Paul McWhinney,
David A Price,
David Harvey,
Deepa Nayar,
Dakshika Jeyaratnam,
Tim Planche,
Jane Minton,
Fleur Hudson,
Susan Hopkins,
John Williams,
M. Estée Török,
Martin Llewelyn,
Jonathan D. Edgeworth,
A. Sarah Walker
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
health technology assessment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.426
H-Index - 126
eISSN - 2046-4924
pISSN - 1366-5278
DOI - 10.3310/hta22590
Subject(s) - medicine , rifampicin , interquartile range , placebo , adjunctive treatment , randomized controlled trial , methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus , surgery , staphylococcus aureus , tuberculosis , pathology , alternative medicine , biology , bacteria , genetics
Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia is a common and frequently fatal infection. Adjunctive rifampicin may enhance early S. aureus killing, sterilise infected foci and blood faster, and thereby reduce the risk of dissemination, metastatic infection and death.
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