Letter to the Editor
Reply to “Antibiotic resistance: Thinking outside the hospital”
Respuesta a «Resistencia a antibióticos: pensando fuera del hospital»
J.-M. Sirvent
, J. González
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Department of Intensive Care (ICU), Study Group of Infections in Critically Ill Patients, Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Girona (IDIBGI), Hospital Universitari de Girona Doctor Josep trueta, Girona, Spain
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In the study the most frequent were <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Staphylococcus aureus</span> (22.2%), <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Escherichia coli</span> (14.8%), <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Enterobacter cloacae</span> (14.8%), <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Klebsiella pneumoniae</span> (11.1%), <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Serratia marcescens</span> (11.1%) <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">and Haemophilus influenzae</span> (7.4%). They observed that 48.1% of the isolated microorganisms were resistant to amoxicillin-clavulanic, 18.5% to piperacillin-tazobactam and 14.8% to third-generation cephalosporin. They described no microorganism was resistant to quinolones or carbapenems.</p><p id="par0015" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Thus, the authors give us an approximate idea as to what might be an alternative to cefuroxime for prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia in coma patients, and we believe is time to develop new RCT to study other antibiotics for prophylaxis with no effect on normal anaerobic microbiota and with a broad-spectrum to Gram-positive and enteric Gram-negative bacilli. A good alternative to cefuroxime might be levofloxacin, because the pharmacological properties are suitable and it is active against the causative micro-organisms.<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0050"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5</span></a> However, we should pay special attention to the development of local antibiotic resistance, and maintaining the antibiotic prophylaxis only 24<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>h (one dose in case of levofloxacin).</p></span>" "pdfFichero" => "main.pdf" "tienePdf" => true "bibliografia" => array:2 [ "titulo" => "References" "seccion" => array:1 [ 0 => array:2 [ "identificador" => "bibs0005" "bibliografiaReferencia" => array:5 [ 0 => array:3 [ "identificador" => "bib0030" "etiqueta" => "1" "referencia" => array:1 [ 0 => array:3 [ "comentario" => "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.medin.2017.05.008" "contribucion" => array:1 [ 0 => array:2 [ "titulo" => "Antibiotic resistance: thinking outside the hospital" "autores" => array:1 [ 0 => array:2 [ "etal" => false "autores" => array:4 [ 0 => "A.J. 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