Overview

This is a retrospective, observational, post-marketing study to evaluate the clinical response, microbiological response, mortality, and safety of intravenous polymyxin B and colistin methanesulfonate in patients with carbapenem-resistant gram-negative bacterial infection. Subgroup analysis by sites of infection, infectious pathogens, and baseline renal function will also be performed.

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Patient ≥ 18 years of age.
2. Patient diagnosed with bacterial pneumonia and/or bacteremia, or other physician judged serious infection (except urinary tract infection, UTI) caused by Carbapenem-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria (CR-GNB).

   CR-GNB: Resistant to at least one of the carbapenem antibiotics or produce a carbapenemase (an enzyme that can make them resistant to carbapenem antibiotics).

   Diagnosis Criteria of HABP/VABP:

   • Met the clinical diagnosis criteria for HABP/VABP. HABP: Acute bacterial pneumonia in a subject hospitalized for more than 48 hours or developing within 7 days after discharge from a hospital. Subject could have experienced acute respiratory failure and required mechanical ventilation for HABP.

   VABP: Acute bacterial pneumonia in a subject receiving mechanical ventilation via an endotracheal (or nasotracheal) tube for a minimum of 48 hours.

   • ≥ 1 of the following clinical features: new onset or worsening of pulmonary symptoms or signs, hypoxemia, need for acute changes in the ventilator support system to enhance oxygenation, new onset of or increase in suctioned respiratory secretions.
   • ≥ 1 of the following signs: documented fever, hypothermia, WBC ≥ 10,000 cells/mm3, WBC ≤ 4500 cells/mm3, \>15% immature neutrophils(bands)
   • CXR or lung CT: presence of new or progressive infiltrates suggestive of bacterial pneumonia.

Diagnosis Criteria of BSI/Bacteremia: the BSI/sepsis category included bacteremia or sepsis caused by infections other than HABP/VABP, or UTI:

• Documented BSI caused by a carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative pathogen; or
• Systemic response to infection, meeting the clinical criteria of SIRS and an identified infection source (eg, severe skin infection, intra-abdominal infection) caused by a carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative pathogen. 3. Patient received intravenous polymyxin B or CMS treatment for ≥72 h. 4. Administration of polymyxin B or CMS within 7 days from the infection onset day.

Infection onset day: The date of specimen collection for index pathogen.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Patient with bacteremia caused by urinary tract infection.
2. CR-GNB known to be resistant to polymyxin B or CMS.
3. Patient has infectious disease (s) caused by the following gram-negative bacteria which are known to have no response to polymyxin B and/or colistin treatment: Proteus spp., Providencia spp., Morganella spp., Serratia marcescens, Burkholderia spp., and Neisseria spp.
4. Intravenous administration of polymyxin B or colistin more than 28 days.
5. Both the treatment efficacy and safety could not be evaluated.