Ömer Güneş, Saliha Kanık-Yüksek, Aylin Kayalı-Akyol, Özhan Akyol, Ahmet Yasin Güney, Fatih Üçkardeş, Aysun Yahşi, Seval Özen, Tuğba Erat, Belgin Gülhan, Gülsüm İclal Bayhan, Aslınur Özkaya-Parlakay
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Abstract
Background: This study aims to evaluate the risk factors, clinical features, and clinical outcomes among pediatric hospitalized patients receiving treatment for Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia and compare the effects of antibiotics used in the treatment on clinical outcomes.
Research design and methods: This single-center retrospective study included patients aged between 1 month and 18 years who received treatment for Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB) betweenSeptember 2019 and September 2022.
Results: SAB was detected in 95 pediatric patients. In MRSA bacteremias, no difference in clinical outcomes was found between patients receiving vancomycin or teicoplanin. In MSSA bacteremias, the recurrence rate of SAB was 0% in the penicillin group and 23.5% in the cephalosporin group. The median duration of bacteremia-related hospital stay (10 vs. 14 days), and the median duration of bacteremia (2 vs. 3 days) were shorter in the ampicillin-sulbactam group than in the piperacillin-tazobactam group (p = 0.016, and p = 0.050, respectively).
Conclusions: Teicoplanin was found to have similar clinical outcomes to vancomycin in treating MRSA bacteremia. In addition, ampicillin sulbactam was found to have better clinical outcomes than other antibiotics in treating MSSA bacteremia. Teicoplanin and ampicillin sulbactam may be considered as a choice in the treatment of pediatric SAB.
期刊介绍:
Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy (ISSN 1478-7210) provides expert reviews on therapeutics and diagnostics in the treatment of infectious disease. Coverage includes antibiotics, drug resistance, drug therapy, infectious disease medicine, antibacterial, antimicrobial, antifungal and antiviral approaches, and diagnostic tests.