Outcomes of critically ill intensive care unit patients treated with fosfomycin for infections due to pandrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant carbapenemase …

K Pontikis, I Karaiskos, S Bastani, G Dimopoulos… - International journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Fosfomycin is active in vitro against extensively drug-resistant (XDR) and pandrug-resistant
(PDR) Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase-producing …

Fosfomycin for the treatment of infections caused by multidrug-resistant non-fermenting Gram-negative bacilli: a systematic review of microbiological, animal and …

ME Falagas, AC Kastoris, DE Karageorgopoulos… - International journal of …, 2009 - Elsevier
The treatment of multidrug-resistant (MDR), extensively drug-resistant or pandrug-resistant
non-fermenting Gram-negative bacterial infections constitutes a challenge in an era of few …

[HTML][HTML] Intravenous fosfomycin for the treatment of nosocomial infections caused by carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in critically ill patients: a …

A Michalopoulos, S Virtzili, P Rafailidis… - Clinical microbiology …, 2010 - Elsevier
Intensive care unit (ICU)-acquired infections as a result of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative
pathogens remain a serious problem in critically ill patients. Adult ICU patients who received …

Fosfomycin: efficacy against infections caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria

A Dinh, J Salomon, JP Bru… - Scandinavian journal of …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: To analyze the indications for and the efficacy of parenteral fosfomycin, especially
against multidrug-resistant (MDR) and pan-resistant bacterial infections. Patients and …

Treatment options for carbapenem-resistant gram-negative bacterial infections

Y Doi - Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Antimicrobial resistance has become one of the greatest threats to public health, with rising
resistance to carbapenems being a particular concern due to the lack of effective and safe …

Antimicrobial susceptibility of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) Enterobacteriaceae isolates to fosfomycin

ME Falagas, S Maraki, DE Karageorgopoulos… - International journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
The advancing antimicrobial drug resistance among Enterobacteriaceae renders the
evaluation of potential novel therapeutic options necessary. We sought to evaluate the in …

Synergy of fosfomycin with carbapenems, colistin, netilmicin, and tigecycline against multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae, Escherichia coli, and Pseudomonas …

G Samonis, S Maraki, DE Karageorgopoulos… - European journal of …, 2012 - Springer
Fosfomycin represents a potential last-resort treatment option for infections with certain
multidrug-resistant (MDR) Gram-negative pathogens. We evaluated double-drug …

[HTML][HTML] The revival of fosfomycin

AS Michalopoulos, IG Livaditis, V Gougoutas - International journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
Fosfomycin, originally named phosphonomycin, was discovered in Spain in 1969. There are
three forms of fosfomycin: fosfomycin tromethamine (a soluble salt) and fosfomycin calcium …

[HTML][HTML] Current clinical use of intravenous fosfomycin in ICU patients in two European countries

C Putensen, B Ellger, SG Sakka, A Weyland, K Schmidt… - Infection, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Purpose In Europe, intravenous fosfomycin (IV) is used particularly in difficult-to-
treat or complex infections, caused by both Gram-positive and Gram-negative pathogens …

Antimicrobial susceptibility of multidrug-resistant Gram negative bacteria to fosfomycin

ME Falagas, MD Kanellopoulou… - European journal of …, 2008 - Springer
We evaluated the antimicrobial activity of fosfomycin against a randomly selected sample of
30 Klebsiella pneumoniae, 30 Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and 30 Acinetobacter baumannii …