Epidemiology and clinical outcomes of patients with multiresistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Clinical Infectious Diseases 1999 May
We conducted a case-series study of multiresistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa in patients who did not have cystic fibrosis. Patient characteristics, antibiotic exposures, time course of emergence of resistance, and clinical outcomes were examined. Twenty-two patients were identified from whom P. aeruginosa resistant to ciprofloxacin, imipenem, ceftazidime, and piperacillin was isolated. Nineteen (86%) had clinical infection. Patients received prolonged courses of antipseudomonal antibiotics before isolation of multiresistant P. aeruginosa. Nine of 11 patients with soft-tissue infection exhibited resolution of clinical infection but usually required surgical removal of infected tissue with or without revascularization. Overall, three patients died. In two instances in which multiple isolates with different susceptibility profiles from the same patient were available, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis profiles of serial isolates were indistinguishable or closely related. This study illustrates that multiresistant P. aeruginosa emerges in a stepwise manner after exposure to antipseudomonal antibiotics and results in adverse outcomes.
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