Clinical relevance of bacterial resistance in lower respiratory tract infection in primary care: Secondary analysis of a multicentre European trial
Clinical relevance of bacterial resistance in lower respiratory tract infection in primary care: Secondary analysis of a multicentre European trial
Background:
The impact of antimicrobial resistance on clinical outcomes in patients with lower respiratory tract infection in primary care is largely unknown.
Aim:
We determined the illness course of infections with resistant bacteria in adults presenting with acute cough to primary care.
Design and setting:
Secondary analysis of a multicentre European trial in primary care.
Method:
2,061 adults with acute cough (≤ 28 days) were recruited from primary care and randomised to amoxicillin or placebo. To reflect the natural course of disease, only patients in the placebo group (n = 1,021) were eligible. Nasopharyngeal flocked swabs and/or sputa (when available) were analysed at baseline and Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae isolates underwent susceptibility testing. Patients recorded their symptoms in a diary every day for four weeks. Patients with and without resistant bacterial infection were compared with regards to symptom severity, duration of symptoms and a return consultation.
Results:
Of the 834 patients with diary records, 104 showed S. pneumoniae and/or H. influenzae infection. Of this number, 54/104 (52%) were antibiotic-resistant, while 7/104 (7%) were resistant to penicillin. Neither duration of symptoms rated “moderately bad or worse” (hazard ratio 1.27, 95% CI 0.67-2.44) nor mean symptom severity (difference -0.48, 95% CI -1.17-0.21) nor worsening of illness (odds ratio 0.31, 95% CI 0.07-1.41) differed significantly between the antibiotic resistant and antibiotic sensitive groups.
Conclusion:
The illness course of antibiotic-resistant lower respiratory tract infection does not differ from that caused by sensitive bacteria.
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Verheij, Theo J. M.
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Coenen, Samuel
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Teepe, Jolien, Broekhuizen, Berna D.L., Goossens, Herman, Horjijk, Patricia Marinka, Loens, Katherine, Lammens, Christine, Ieven, Margareta, Little, Paul, Butler, Chris C., Coenen, Samuel, Godycki-Cwirko, Maciek, Henriques-Normark, Birgitta and Verheij, Theo J. M.
(2018)
Clinical relevance of bacterial resistance in lower respiratory tract infection in primary care: Secondary analysis of a multicentre European trial.
British Journal of General Practice, 68 (674), .
(doi:10.3399/bjgp18X698333).
Abstract
Background:
The impact of antimicrobial resistance on clinical outcomes in patients with lower respiratory tract infection in primary care is largely unknown.
Aim:
We determined the illness course of infections with resistant bacteria in adults presenting with acute cough to primary care.
Design and setting:
Secondary analysis of a multicentre European trial in primary care.
Method:
2,061 adults with acute cough (≤ 28 days) were recruited from primary care and randomised to amoxicillin or placebo. To reflect the natural course of disease, only patients in the placebo group (n = 1,021) were eligible. Nasopharyngeal flocked swabs and/or sputa (when available) were analysed at baseline and Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae isolates underwent susceptibility testing. Patients recorded their symptoms in a diary every day for four weeks. Patients with and without resistant bacterial infection were compared with regards to symptom severity, duration of symptoms and a return consultation.
Results:
Of the 834 patients with diary records, 104 showed S. pneumoniae and/or H. influenzae infection. Of this number, 54/104 (52%) were antibiotic-resistant, while 7/104 (7%) were resistant to penicillin. Neither duration of symptoms rated “moderately bad or worse” (hazard ratio 1.27, 95% CI 0.67-2.44) nor mean symptom severity (difference -0.48, 95% CI -1.17-0.21) nor worsening of illness (odds ratio 0.31, 95% CI 0.07-1.41) differed significantly between the antibiotic resistant and antibiotic sensitive groups.
Conclusion:
The illness course of antibiotic-resistant lower respiratory tract infection does not differ from that caused by sensitive bacteria.
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Accepted/In Press date: 30 April 2018
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Published date: 1 September 2018
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Jolien Teepe
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Berna D.L. Broekhuizen
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Herman Goossens
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Patricia Marinka Horjijk
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Katherine Loens
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Christine Lammens
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Margareta Ieven
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Chris C. Butler
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Samuel Coenen
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Maciek Godycki-Cwirko
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Birgitta Henriques-Normark
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Theo J. M. Verheij
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