European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) guidelines for the treatment of infections caused by multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacilli (endorsed by European society of intensive care medicine)

Clinical Microbiology and Infection - Tập 28 Số 4 - Trang 521-547 - 2022
Mical Paul1,2, Elena Carrara3, Pilar Retamar4,5, Thomas Tängdén6, Roni Bitterman1,2, Robert A. Bonomo7,8,9, Jan J. De Waele10, George L. Daikos11, Murat Akova12, Stephan Harbarth13, Céline Pulcini14,15, José Garnacho‐Montero16, Katja Seme17, Mario Tumbarello18, Paul Christoffer Lindemann19, Sumanth Gandra20, Yunsong Yu21,22,23, Matteo Bassetti24,25, Johan W. Mouton26, Evelina Tacconelli3,27,28, Jesús Rodríguez‐Baño4,5
1Faculty of Medicine Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
2Infectious Diseases Institute, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel
3Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Diagnostic and Public Health, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
4Departamento de Medicina, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
5Unidad Clínica de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Microbiología y Medicina Preventiva, Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena/Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Seville, Spain
6Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
7Department of Medicine, Pharmacology, Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Biochemistry, Proteomics and Bioinformatics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA
8Medical Service, Research Service, and GRECC, Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA
9VAMC Center for Antimicrobial Resistance and Epidemiology, Cleveland, OH, USA
10Department of Critical Care Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
11First Department of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
12Hacettepe University School of Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Ankara, Turkey
13Infection Control Programme, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland
14Université de Lorraine, APEMAC, Nancy, France
15Université de Lorraine, CHRU-Nancy, Infectious Diseases Department, Nancy, France.
16Intensive Care Unit. Virgen Macarena University Hospital, Seville, Spain
17Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
18Department of Medical Biotechnologies, University of Siena, Italy
19Haukeland University Hospital, Department of Microbiology, Bergen, Norway
20Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, St Louis, MO, USA
21Department of Infectious Diseases, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
22Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology and Bioinformatics of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, China
23Regional Medical Centre for National Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
24Clinica Malattie Infettive, San Martino Policlinico Hospital, Genoa, Italy
25Department of Health Sciences, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
26Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
27Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine I, German Centre for Infection Research, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
28German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Clinical Research Unit for Healthcare Associated Infections, Tübingen, Germany

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