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    Falcone, Marco; Tiseo, Giusy; Antonelli, Alberto; Giordano, Cesira; Pilato, Vincenzo Di; Bertolucci, Pietro; Parisio, Eva Maria; Leonildi, Alessandro; Aiezza, Noemi; Baccani, Ilaria; Tagliaferri, Enrico; Righi, Lorenzo; Forni, Silvia; Sani, Spartaco; Mechi, Maria Teresa; Pieralli, Filippo; Barnini, Simona; Rossolini, Gian Maria; Menichetti, Francesco

    Open forum infectious diseases, 02/2020, Letnik: 7, Številka: 2
    Journal Article

    Limited data about New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase (NDM) bacteremia are available. Blood isolates from 40 patients with NDM bacteremia were studied for antibiotic susceptibility and whole-genomic sequencing. NDM bacteremia has high 30-day mortality. In most cases, aztreonam-avibactam is active in vitro. Ceftazidime-avibactam plus aztreonam may represent a feasible therapeutic option. Keywords. bacteremia; carbapenem-resistant; New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamases.