<records>
<record>
<language>eng</language>
<publisher>Excellent Publishers</publisher>
<journalTitle>
International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences (IJCMAS) CODEN(USA)-IJCMO9
</journalTitle>
<issn>2319-7692</issn>
<eissn>2319-7706</eissn>
<publicationDate>2015-01-10</publicationDate>
<volume>5</volume>
<issue>1</issue>
<startPage>157</startPage>
<endPage>164</endPage>
<documentType>article</documentType>
<title language="eng">
Doxycycline and Co-trimethoxazole: A new combination for treatment
of MDR Acinetobacter baumannii. Does it work?
</title>

<authors>
<author>
<name>S. Farid</name>
<affiliationId>1</affiliationId>
</author>
<author>
<name> A. Abouelela</name>
<affiliationId>2</affiliationId>
</author>

<author>
<name>M. Eliwa</name>
<affiliationId>3</affiliationId>
</author>
</authors>

<affiliationsList>
<affiliationName affiliationId="1">
Alexandria University, Microbiology &amp; Immunology, Alexandria, Egypt
</affiliationName>
<affiliationName affiliationId="2">
AlexandriaUniversity, Critical Care Medicine, Alexandria, Egypt
</affiliationName>


</affiliationsList>

<abstract language="eng">
<p>
Acinetobacter baumannii has proven to be an increasingly important and demanding
species in health care-associated infections. The drug-resistant nature of the pathogen
and its unusual and unpredictable susceptibility patterns make empirical and
therapeutic decisions even more difficult. Most of the published and running studies for
treatment of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (MDR-AB) depends on the
usage of older class of antibiotic (Colistin) either alone as a single therapy or in
combination with another antibacterial agents. The fact that new strains of
Acinetobacter baumannii started to show resistance to colistin obliged the investigators
to search for other alternatives for treatment. The aim of this study was to assess the
effect of combination of Doxycycline and co-trimethoxazole in the cure of nosocomial
MDR-AB infection in critically ill patients and its effect on the patients outcome. The
study was done on 50 adult critically ill patients who developed nosocomial isolated
MDR-AB in the Critical Care Medicine Department of Alexandria University in Egypt
and received combination of Doxycycline 100 mg twice daily With trimethoprime- sulphamethoxazole (co-trimethoxazole) in a dose of 80 mg Trimethoprime/400 mg
Sulphamethoxazole twice daily for 1 week. patients who are allergic to the antibiotics
used or those who did not continue 7 days treatment were excluded from the study. Approval of local ethical committee as well as consent from patients relatives were
obtained. culture and sensitivity was repeated after 1 week treatment. The
microbiological cure rate was 60 % as 30/50 patients were cured. The bestcure rate was
in surgical site infection with 88.9 % (8/9) while the cure in pneumonia was56.7 %
(17/30). Two cases with blood stream infection were not cured while (5/9) patients
from those who had more than one site infection were cured. The total 30 days
mortality was 20 % (10/50) while the mortality related infection was 12 %. We
concluded that combination of Doxycycline and co-trimethoxazole can be used in the
treatment of nosocomial MDR-AB infection resistant to colistin or incases with
contraindications or unavailability of colistin especially in surgical site infection and to
less extent in pneumonia. However, further larger studies are needed to validate the
results of this study.
</p>
</abstract>

<fullTextUrl format="pdf">
http://www.ijcmas.com/vol-5-1/S.%20Farid,%20et%20al.pdf
</fullTextUrl>
<keywords language="eng">
<keyword>Doxycycline
and cotrimethoxazole
</keyword>
</keywords>
<keywords language="eng">
<keyword>  Acinetobacter
baumannii</keyword>
</keywords>
<keywords language="eng">
<keyword>MDR-AB
infection</keyword>
</keywords>

</record>
</records>