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Vancomycin Monotherapy May Be Insufficient to Treat Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Coinfection in Children With Influenza-related Critical Illness. Clin Infect Dis 2019 Jan 18;68(3):365-372

Date

06/13/2018

Pubmed ID

29893805

Pubmed Central ID

PMC6336914

DOI

10.1093/cid/ciy495

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-85060176384 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   31 Citations

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Coinfection with influenza virus and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) causes life-threatening necrotizing pneumonia in children. Sporadic incidence precludes evaluation of antimicrobial efficacy. We assessed the clinical characteristics and outcomes of critically ill children with influenza-MRSA pneumonia and evaluated antibiotic use.

METHODS: We enrolled children (<18 years) with influenza infection and respiratory failure across 34 pediatric intensive care units 11/2008-5/2016. We compared baseline characteristics, clinical courses, and therapies in children with MRSA coinfection, non-MRSA bacterial coinfection, and no bacterial coinfection.

RESULTS: We enrolled 170 children (127 influenza A, 43 influenza B). Children with influenza-MRSA pneumonia (N = 30, 87% previously healthy) were older than those with non-MRSA (N = 61) or no (N = 79) bacterial coinfections. Influenza-MRSA was associated with increased leukopenia, acute lung injury, vasopressor use, extracorporeal life support, and mortality than either group (P ≤ .0001). Influenza-related mortality was 40% with MRSA compared to 4.3% without (relative risk [RR], 9.3; 95% confidence interval [CI], 3.8-22.9). Of 29/30 children with MRSA who received vancomycin within the first 24 hours of hospitalization, mortality was 12.5% (N = 2/16) if treatment also included a second anti-MRSA antibiotic compared to 69.2% (N = 9/13) with vancomycin monotherapy (RR, 5.5; 95% CI, 1.4, 21.3; P = .003). Vancomycin dosing did not influence initial trough levels; 78% were <10 µg/mL.

CONCLUSIONS: Influenza-MRSA coinfection is associated with high fatality in critically ill children. These data support early addition of a second anti-MRSA antibiotic to vancomycin in suspected severe cases.

Author List

Randolph AG, Xu R, Novak T, Newhams MM, Bubeck Wardenburg J, Weiss SL, Sanders RC, Thomas NJ, Hall MW, Tarquinio KM, Cvijanovich N, Gedeit RG, Truemper EJ, Markovitz B, Hartman ME, Ackerman KG, Giuliano JS Jr, Shein SL, Moffitt KL, Pediatric Intensive Care Influenza Investigators from the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigator’s Network

Author

Rainer G. Gedeit MD Associate Chief Medical Officer in the Children's Administration department at Children's Wisconsin

MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Adolescent
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Child
Child, Preschool
Coinfection
Critical Illness
Female
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Influenza, Human
Male
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Pneumonia, Staphylococcal
Prospective Studies
Survival Analysis
Treatment Outcome
Vancomycin