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1. A rare case of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis presenting as organizing pneumonia due to Aspergillus niger in an immunocompetent host

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Raphaël Schils, Antoine Altdorfer, Filip Moerman, Thierry Weber, Michèle De Waele, Johan Maertens, and Benoit F. Pirotte

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Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis, Organizing pneumonia, Aspergillus niger, Diseases of the respiratory system, RC705-779
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Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis associated with organizing pneumonia is increasingly described and mainly affects the immunocompromised individual. Most of Aspergillus invasive infections in both immunocompetent and immunocompromised patients are attributed to Aspergillus fumigatus. Herein we describe a clinical case of pulmonary Aspergillus niger infection presenting as an organizing pneumonia in an immunocompetent patient. A wedge resection and two successive cures of azoles (voriconazole 6 weeks then itraconazole 6 weeks) were necessary for the patient to be totally recovered. The association of OP and IPA is rare. The involvement of A. niger makes it even rarer, this is the reason why we decided to report on this case.

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2021
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2. Infective endocarditis caused by Neisseria mucosa on a prosthetic pulmonary valve with false positive serology for Coxiella burnetii – The first described case

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Antoine Altdorfer, Benoit F. Pirotte, Laura Gaspard, Emilien Gregoire, Eric Firre, Filip Moerman, Martial Moonen, Ahmed Sanoussi, Marjan Van Esbroeck, and Marcella Mori

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Neisseria mucosa, Tetralogy of Fallot, Infective endocarditis, Pulmonary valve, Coxiella burnetii, Q fever, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216
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We present a case of infective endocarditis (IE) on a prosthetic pulmonary valve in a 36-year-old patient with tetralogy of Fallot (TOF). The patient underwent valve replacement surgery and active antibiotic treatment against Gram-negative cocci (Piperacillin Tazobactam then Ceftriaxone) for a total duration of 42 days with a favourable outcome. The causative agent was Neisseria mucosa which was identified on the infected valve by sequencing of 16S ribosomal RNA. To our knowledge, this is the first described case of a N. mucosa infective endocarditis on a pulmonary valve. Initially, serologies performed in clinical settings by immunofluorescence for Coxiella burnetii antibodies showed a major increase in phase I IgG titers at 1024 (normal values

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2021
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3. Incidence and Risk Factors of COVID-19-Associated Pulmonary Aspergillosis in Intensive Care Unit—A Monocentric Retrospective Observational Study

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Emilien Gregoire, Benoit François Pirotte, Filip Moerman, Antoine Altdorfer, Laura Gaspard, Eric Firre, Martial Moonen, Vincent Fraipont, Marie Ernst, and Gilles Darcis

Subjects
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA), COVID-19-associated pulmonary aspergillosis (CAPA), intensive care unit (ICU), bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL), galactomannan (GM), Medicine
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-associated pulmonary aspergillosis (CAPA) is an increasingly recognized complication of COVID-19 and is associated with significant over-mortality. We performed a retrospective monocentric study in patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) for respiratory insufficiency due to COVID-19 from March to December 2020, in order to evaluate the incidence of CAPA and the associated risk factors. We also analysed the diagnostic approach used in our medical centre for CAPA diagnosis. We defined CAPA using recently proposed consensus definitions based on clinical, radiological and microbiological criteria. Probable cases of CAPA occurred in 9 out of 141 patients included in the analysis (6.4%). All cases were diagnosed during the second wave of the pandemic. We observed a significantly higher realization rate of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) (51.1% vs. 28.6%, p = 0.01) and Aspergillus testing (through galactomannan, culture, PCR) on BAL samples during the second wave (p < 0.0001). The testing for Aspergillus in patients meeting the clinical and radiological criteria of CAPA increased between the two waves (p < 0.0001). In conclusion, we reported a low but likely underestimated incidence of CAPA in our population. A greater awareness and more systematic testing for Aspergillus are necessary to assess the real incidence and characteristics of CAPA.

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2021
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4. Mycobacterium avium complex and Cryptococcus neoformans co-infection in a patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome: a case report

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Laura Gaspard, Eric Firre, Filip Moerman, Emilien Gregoire, Benoît Pirotte, Antoine Altdorfer, Gilles Darcis, and Martial Moonen

Subjects
Cryptococcus neoformans, biology, Opportunistic infection, business.industry, General Medicine, medicine.disease, biology.organism_classification, Tenofovir alafenamide, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome, Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), Abacavir, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Immunology, medicine, 030212 general & internal medicine, business, Viral load, Immunodeficiency, medicine.drug
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Introduction: Opportunistic infections (OI) are common in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Cryptococcus neoformans and Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) are frequently responsible of such infections. However, concurrent infection with these two pathogens is uncommon and underreported in the literature.Case description: We describe the case of a 28-year-old Caucasian Belgian patient with no travel history, who presented with low-grade fever, headache and wasting syndrome. He was diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection at AIDS stage, with a HIV viral load of 506,000 viral copies/mL and a CD4 + T-cells count of 10 cells/µL. Diagnosis of disseminated Cryptococcus neoformans infection was made by positive serum cryptococcal antigen and positive culture for Cryptococcus neoformans in blood and in cerebrospinal fluid. Diagnosis of disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex infection was made by positive culture on a biopsy of a mediastinal lymph node. With adequate anti-retroviral therapy (ART) and treatment of these OIs, the patient recovered well and had a good clinical evolution.Discussion and conclusion: To our knowledge, this is the second case of coexistence of these two dangerous OIs reported in the post ART era. Clinicians should be aware that such co-infections still happen in high-income countries, in patients with severe immunodeficiency. Early detection and treatment of HIV is of paramount importance to prevent AIDS and its complications. We highlight the importance of thoroughly excluding all opportunistic infections in patients with newly diagnosed AIDS.Abbreviations: ABC: abacavir; AIDS: acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; AFB: acid-fast bacilli; ART: antiretroviral therapy; CM: cryptococcal meningitis; CrAg: cryptococcal antigen; CSF: cerebrospinal fluid; CT: computed tomography; EACS: European AIDS Clinical Society; FTC: emtricitabine; HIC: high-income countries; HIV: human immunodeficiency virus; HIV-VL: HIV-viral load; ICP: intracranial pressure; IRIS: immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome; MAC: Mycobacterium avium complex; MRI: magnetic resonance imaging; MSM: man who has sex with men; NR: normal range; OD: omne in die = once daily; OI: opportunistic infection; RAL: raltegravir; TAF: tenofovir alafenamide fumarate.

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2021
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5. Final results of the DisCoVeRy trial of remdesivir for patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19

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Florence Ader, Maude Bouscambert-Duchamp, Maya Hites, Nathan Peiffer-Smadja, France Mentré, Charles Burdet, Jérôme Aboab, Hafid Ait-Oufella, Antoine Altdorfer, Claire Andrejak, Pascal Andreu, Laurent Argaud, Firouzé Bani-Sadr, Drifa Belhadi, Leila Belkhir, François Benezit, Marc Berna, Mathieu Blot, Elisabeth Botelho-Nevers, Lila Bouadma, Olivier Bouchaud, David Bougon, Kevin Bouiller, Fanny Bounes-Vardon, David Boutoille, Alexandre Boyer, Sandra Braz, Cédric Bruel, André Cabié, Emmanuel Canet, Charles Cazanave, Cyrille Chabartier, Catherine Chirouze, Raphaël Clere-Jehl, Dominique Costagliola, Sandrine Couffin-Cadièrgues, Johan Courjon, Flora Crockett, François Danion, Aline Dechanet, Agathe Delbove, Jean Dellamonica, Christelle Delmas, Alpha Diallo, Félix Djossou, Clément Dubost, Alexandre Duvignaud, Alexander Egle, Olivier Epaulard, Loïc Epelboin, Hélène Esperou, Murielle Fartoukh, Karine Faure, Emmanuel Faure, Joao-Miguel Ferreira Ribeiro, Tristan Ferry, Cécile Ficko, Samy Figueiredo, Claire Fougerou, Vincent Fraipont, Benjamin Gaborit, Rostane Gaci, Amandine Gagneux-Brunon, Sébastien Gallien, Denis Garot, Alexandre Gaymard, Guillaume Geri, Sébastien Gibot, François Goehringer, Marie Gousseff, Richard Greil, Didier Gruson, Jérémie Guedj, Yves Hansmann, Olivier Hinschberger, Stéphane Jaureguiberry, Vanessa Jeanmichel, Michael Joannidis, Solen Kerneis, Antoine Kimmoun, Kada Klouche, Marie Lachâtre, Karine Lacombe, Fabrice Laine, Bernd Lamprecht, Jean-Philippe Lanoix, Odile Launay, Bruno Laviolle, Minh-Patrick Lê, Vincent Le Moing, Jérôme Le Pavec, Yves Le Tulzo, Paul Le Turnier, David Lebeaux, Benjamin Lefevre, Sylvie Leroy, François-Xavier Lescure, Henry Lessire, Benjamin Leveau, Bruno Lina, Paul Loubet, Alain Makinson, Denis Malvy, Charles-Hugo Marquette, Guillaume Martin-Blondel, Martin Martinot, Julien Mayaux, Armand Mekontso-Dessap, Noémie Mercier, Ferhat Meziani, Jean-Paul Mira, Jean-Michel Molina, Xavier Monnet, Joy Mootien, Bruno Mourvillier, Bruno Mourvilliers, Marlène Murris-Espin, Jean-Christophe Navellou, Marion Noret, Saad Nseir, Walid Oulehri, José-Artur Paiva, Thomas Perpoint, Gilles Peytavin, Gilles Pialoux, Benoît Pilmis, Vincent Piriou, Lionel Piroth, Julien Poissy, Valérie Pourcher, Jean-Pierre Quenot, François Raffi, Jean Reignier, Jean Reuter, Matthieu Revest, Jean-Christophe Richard, Béatrice Riu-Poulenc, Céline Robert, Pierre-Alexandre Roger, Claire Roger, Roberto Roncon-Albuquerque, Elisabeth Rouveix-Nordon, Yvon Ruch, Nadia Saidani, Juliette Saillard, Naomi Sayre, Eric Senneville, Albert Sotto, Thérèse Staub, Francois Stefan, Charles Tacquard, Nicolas Terzi, Julien Textoris, Guillaume Thiery, Jean-François Timsit, Violaine Tolsma, Sarah Tubiana, Jean-Marie Turmel, Florent Valour, Fanny Vardon-Bounes, Priyanka Velou, Gil Verschelden, Florent Wallet, Guilhem Wattecamps, Yazdan Yazdanpanah, Yoann Zerbib, UCL - SSS/IREC/LTAP - Louvain Centre for Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, and UCL - (SLuc) Service de médecine interne générale

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Hospitalization, Clinical Trials as Topic, Alanine, Infectious Diseases, COVID-19, Humans, Adenosine Monophosphate, COVID-19 Drug Treatment
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2022
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6. Incidence and Risk Factors of COVID-19-Associated Pulmonary Aspergillosis in Intensive Care Unit—A Monocentric Retrospective Observational Study

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Laura Gaspard, Vincent Fraipont, Eric Firre, Martial Moonen, Emilien Gregoire, Antoine Altdorfer, Marie Ernst, Gilles Darcis, Benoît Pirotte, and Filip Moerman

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Microbiology (medical), medicine.medical_specialty, Population, COVID-19-associated pulmonary aspergillosis (CAPA), Article, law.invention, Galactomannan, chemistry.chemical_compound, galactomannan (GM), law, Internal medicine, medicine, Immunology and Allergy, intensive care unit (ICU), education, Molecular Biology, education.field_of_study, General Immunology and Microbiology, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, Incidence (epidemiology), bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL), invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA), Retrospective cohort study, Intensive care unit, Infectious Diseases, Bronchoalveolar lavage, chemistry, Radiological weapon, Medicine, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Complication, business
Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-associated pulmonary aspergillosis (CAPA) is an increasingly recognized complication of COVID-19 and is associated with significant over-mortality. We performed a retrospective monocentric study in patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) for respiratory insufficiency due to COVID-19 from March to December 2020, in order to evaluate the incidence of CAPA and the associated risk factors. We also analysed the diagnostic approach used in our medical centre for CAPA diagnosis. We defined CAPA using recently proposed consensus definitions based on clinical, radiological and microbiological criteria. Probable cases of CAPA occurred in 9 out of 141 patients included in the analysis (6.4%). All cases were diagnosed during the second wave of the pandemic. We observed a significantly higher realization rate of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) (51.1% vs. 28.6%, p = 0.01) and Aspergillus testing (through galactomannan, culture, PCR) on BAL samples during the second wave (p &lt, 0.0001). The testing for Aspergillus in patients meeting the clinical and radiological criteria of CAPA increased between the two waves (p &lt, 0.0001). In conclusion, we reported a low but likely underestimated incidence of CAPA in our population. A greater awareness and more systematic testing for Aspergillus are necessary to assess the real incidence and characteristics of CAPA.

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2021

7. Remdesivir plus standard of care versus standard of care alone for the treatment of patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (DisCoVeRy): a phase 3, randomised, controlled, open-label trial

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Florence Ader, Maude Bouscambert-Duchamp, Maya Hites, Nathan Peiffer-Smadja, Julien Poissy, Drifa Belhadi, Alpha Diallo, Minh-Patrick Lê, Gilles Peytavin, Thérèse Staub, Richard Greil, Jérémie Guedj, Jose-Artur Paiva, Dominique Costagliola, Yazdan Yazdanpanah, Charles Burdet, France Mentré, Alexander Egle, Michael Joannidis, Bernd Lamprecht, Antoine Altdorfer, Leila Belkhir, Vincent Fraipont, Gil Verschelden, Jérôme Aboab, Hafid Ait-Oufella, Claire Andrejak, Pascal Andreu, Laurent Argaud, Firouzé Bani-Sadr, François Benezit, Mathieu Blot, Elisabeth Botelho-Nevers, Lila Bouadma, Olivier Bouchaud, David Bougon, Kevin Bouiller, Fanny Bounes-Vardon, David Boutoille, Alexandre Boyer, Cédric Bruel, André Cabié, Emmanuel Canet, Charles Cazanave, Cyrille Chabartier, Catherine Chirouze, Raphaël Clere-Jehl, Johan Courjon, Flora Crockett, François Danion, Agathe Delbove, Jean Dellamonica, Félix Djossou, Clément Dubost, Alexandre Duvignaud, Olivier Epaulard, Loïc Epelboin, Murielle Fartoukh, Karine Faure, Emmanuel Faure, Tristan Ferry, Cécile Ficko, Samy Figueiredo, Benjamin Gaborit, Rostane Gaci, Amandine Gagneux-Brunon, Sébastien Gallien, Denis Garot, Guillaume Geri, Sébastien Gibot, François Goehringer, Marie Gousseff, Didier Gruson, Yves Hansmann, Olivier Hinschberger, Stéphane Jaureguiberry, Vanessa Jeanmichel, Solen Kerneis, Antoine Kimmoun, Kada Klouche, Marie Lachâtre, Karine Lacombe, Fabrice Laine, Jean-Philippe Lanoix, Odile Launay, Bruno Laviolle, Vincent Le Moing, Jérôme Le Pavec, Yves Le Tulzo, Paul Le Turnier, David Lebeaux, Benjamin Lefevre, Sylvie Leroy, François-Xavier Lescure, Henry Lessire, Benjamin Leveau, Paul Loubet, Alain Makinson, Denis Malvy, Charles-Hugo Marquette, Guillaume Martin-Blondel, Martin Martinot, Julien Mayaux, Armand Mekontso-Dessap, Ferhat Meziani, Jean-Paul Mira, Jean-Michel Molina, Xavier Monnet, Joy Mootien, Bruno Mourvillier, Marlène Murris-Espin, Jean-Christophe Navellou, Saad Nseir, Walid Oulehri, Thomas Perpoint, Gilles Pialoux, Benoît Pilmis, Vincent Piriou, Lionel Piroth, Valérie Pourcher, Jean-Pierre Quenot, François Raffi, Jean Reignier, Matthieu Revest, Jean-Christophe Richard, Béatrice Riu-Poulenc, Céline Robert, Pierre-Alexandre Roger, Claire Roger, Elisabeth Rouveix-Nordon, Yvon Ruch, Nadia Saidani, Naomi Sayre, Eric Senneville, Albert Sotto, Francois Stefan, Charles Tacquard, Nicolas Terzi, Julien Textoris, Guillaume Thiery, Jean-François Timsit, Violaine Tolsma, Jean-Marie Turmel, Florent Valour, Florent Wallet, Guilhem Wattecamps, Yoann Zerbib, Marc Berna, Jean Reuter, Sandra Braz, Joao-Miguel Ferreira Ribeiro, José-Artur Paiva, Roberto Roncon-Albuquerque, Alexandre Gaymard, Bruno Lina, Sarah Tubiana, Sandrine Couffin-Cadièrgues, Hélène Esperou, Aline Dechanet, Christelle Delmas, Claire Fougerou, Noémie Mercier, Marion Noret, Juliette Saillard, Priyanka Velou, Physiologie & médecine expérimentale du Cœur et des Muscles [U 1046] (PhyMedExp), Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier), Internal Medicine, Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL), Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie (CIRI), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Infection, Anti-microbiens, Modélisation, Evolution (IAME (UMR_S_1137 / U1137)), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Imperial College London, Unité de Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionnelle - UMR 8576 (UGSF), Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ANRS - Maladies infectieuses émergentes (ANRS - MIE), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Optimisation thérapeutique en Neuropsychopharmacologie (OPTeN (UMR_S_1144 / U1144)), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg [Luxembourg] (CHL), Paracelsus Medizinische Privatuniversität = Paracelsus Medical University (PMU), Universidade do Porto = University of Porto, Institut Pierre Louis d'Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique (iPLESP), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM), CHU Pontchaillou [Rennes], Centre d'Investigation Clinique [Rennes] (CIC), Université de Rennes (UR)-Hôpital Pontchaillou-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), ARN régulateurs bactériens et médecine (BRM), Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Structure Fédérative de Recherche en Biologie et Santé de Rennes ( Biosit : Biologie - Santé - Innovation Technologique ), Centre de Recherche en Acquisition et Traitement de l'Image pour la Santé (CREATIS), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon), Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Modeling & analysis for medical imaging and Diagnosis (MYRIAD), Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), European Union Commission, French Ministry of Health, Domaine d'intérêt majeur One Health Île-de-France, REACTing, Fonds Erasme-COVID-Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre, Austrian Group Medical Tumor, European Regional Development Fund, Portugal Ministry of Health, Portugal Agency for Clinical Research and Biomedical Innovation., Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Hôpital Pontchaillou-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Structure Fédérative de Recherche en Biologie et Santé de Rennes ( Biosit : Biologie - Santé - Innovation Technologique ), Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL)-Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL)-Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), UCL - SSS/IREC/LTAP - Louvain Centre for Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, and UCL - (SLuc) Service de médecine interne générale

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Male, medicine.medical_specialty, medicine.medical_treatment, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Population, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Antiviral Agents, law.invention, 03 medical and health sciences, Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation, 0302 clinical medicine, Randomized controlled trial, [SDV.MHEP.MI]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Infectious diseases, law, Internal medicine, Humans, Medicine, media_common.cataloged_instance, 030212 general & internal medicine, European union, education, Contraindication, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Aged, media_common, Mechanical ventilation, education.field_of_study, Alanine, business.industry, COVID-19, Standard of Care, Odds ratio, Articles, Middle Aged, Respiration, Artificial, Adenosine Monophosphate, COVID-19 Drug Treatment, 3. Good health, Europe, Hospitalization, Oxygen, Clinical trial, Infectious Diseases, Clinical research, Female, business
Abstract

Summary Background The antiviral efficacy of remdesivir against SARS-CoV-2 is still controversial. We aimed to evaluate the clinical efficacy of remdesivir plus standard of care compared with standard of care alone in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19, with indication of oxygen or ventilator support. Methods DisCoVeRy was a phase 3, open-label, adaptive, multicentre, randomised, controlled trial conducted in 48 sites in Europe (France, Belgium, Austria, Portugal, Luxembourg). Adult patients (aged ≥18 years) admitted to hospital with laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection and illness of any duration were eligible if they had clinical evidence of hypoxaemic pneumonia, or required oxygen supplementation. Exclusion criteria included elevated liver enzymes, severe chronic kidney disease, any contraindication to one of the studied treatments or their use in the 29 days before random assignment, or use of ribavirin, as well as pregnancy or breastfeeding. Participants were randomly assigned (1:1:1:1:1) to receive standard of care alone or in combination with remdesivir, lopinavir–ritonavir, lopinavir–ritonavir and interferon beta-1a, or hydroxychloroquine. Randomisation used computer-generated blocks of various sizes; it was stratified on severity of disease at inclusion and on European administrative region. Remdesivir was administered as 200 mg intravenous infusion on day 1, followed by once daily, 1-h infusions of 100 mg up to 9 days, for a total duration of 10 days. It could be stopped after 5 days if the participant was discharged. The primary outcome was the clinical status at day 15 measured by the WHO seven-point ordinal scale, assessed in the intention-to-treat population. Safety was assessed in the modified intention-to-treat population and was one of the secondary outcomes. This trial is registered with the European Clinical Trials Database, EudraCT2020-000936-23, and ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT04315948. Findings Between March 22, 2020, and Jan 21, 2021, 857 participants were enrolled and randomly assigned to remdesivir plus standard of care (n=429) or standard of care only (n=428). 15 participants were excluded from analysis in the remdesivir group, and ten in the control group. At day 15, the distribution of the WHO ordinal scale was: (1) not hospitalised, no limitations on activities (61 [15%] of 414 in the remdesivir group vs 73 [17%] of 418 in the control group); (2) not hospitalised, limitation on activities (129 [31%] vs 132 [32%]); (3) hospitalised, not requiring supplemental oxygen (50 [12%] vs 29 [7%]); (4) hospitalised, requiring supplemental oxygen (76 [18%] vs 67 [16%]); (5) hospitalised, on non-invasive ventilation or high flow oxygen devices (15 [4%] vs 14 [3%]); (6) hospitalised, on invasive mechanical ventilation or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (62 [15%] vs 79 [19%]); (7) death (21 [5%] vs 24 [6%]). The difference between treatment groups was not significant (odds ratio 0·98 [95% CI 0·77–1·25]; p=0·85). There was no significant difference in the occurrence of serious adverse events between treatment groups (remdesivir, 135 [33%] of 406 vs control, 130 [31%] of 418; p=0·48). Three deaths (acute respiratory distress syndrome, bacterial infection, and hepatorenal syndrome) were considered related to remdesivir by the investigators, but only one by the sponsor's safety team (hepatorenal syndrome). Interpretation No clinical benefit was observed from the use of remdesivir in patients who were admitted to hospital for COVID-19, were symptomatic for more than 7 days, and required oxygen support. Funding European Union Commission, French Ministry of Health, Domaine d'interet majeur One Health Ile-de-France, REACTing, Fonds Erasme-COVID-Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre, Austrian Group Medical Tumor, European Regional Development Fund, Portugal Ministry of Health, Portugal Agency for Clinical Research and Biomedical Innovation. Translation For the French translation of the abstract see Supplementary Materials section.

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2021
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8. Infective endocarditis caused by Neisseria mucosa on a prosthetic pulmonary valve with false positive serology for Coxiella burnetii – The first described case

Author

Laura Gaspard, Ahmed Sanoussi, Antoine Altdorfer, Marcella Mori, Martial Moonen, Filip Moerman, Marjan Van Esbroeck, Benoît Pirotte, Eric Firre, and Emilien Gregoire

Subjects
0301 basic medicine, medicine.medical_specialty, medicine.drug_class, Pulmonary valve, 030106 microbiology, Antibiotics, Q fever, Case Report, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216, Gastroenterology, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Internal medicine, medicine, 030212 general & internal medicine, Tetralogy of Fallot, biology, business.industry, Neisseria mucosa, medicine.disease, Coxiella burnetii, biology.organism_classification, Infectious Diseases, medicine.anatomical_structure, Infective endocarditis, Piperacillin/tazobactam, business, medicine.drug
Abstract

We present a case of infective endocarditis (IE) on a prosthetic pulmonary valve in a 36-year-old patient with tetralogy of Fallot (TOF). The patient underwent valve replacement surgery and active antibiotic treatment against Gram-negative cocci (Piperacillin Tazobactam then Ceftriaxone) for a total duration of 42 days with a favourable outcome. The causative agent was Neisseria mucosa which was identified on the infected valve by sequencing of 16S ribosomal RNA. To our knowledge, this is the first described case of a N. mucosa infective endocarditis on a pulmonary valve. Initially, serologies performed in clinical settings by immunofluorescence for Coxiella burnetii antibodies showed a major increase in phase I IgG titers at 1024 (normal values

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2021

9. Aggregatibacter aphrophilus spinal epidural abscess

Author

Antoine Altdorfer, Filip Moerman, and Pierre Gavage

Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty, biology, business.industry, medicine.medical_treatment, Eikenella corrodens, Laminectomy, General Medicine, Aggregatibacter aphrophilus, biology.organism_classification, Spinal epidural abscess, Surgery, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, medicine.anatomical_structure, Rare Disease, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, medicine, Ceftriaxone, Back pain, Sphincter, medicine.symptom, business, Cardiobacterium hominis, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, medicine.drug
Abstract

A 76-year-old woman with a rare case of spinal epidural abscess (SEA) that had no risk factors for such type of infection, presented symptoms of back pain, progressive neurological deficit of the lower limb and loss of sphincter control. A gadolinium-enhanced MRI confirmed the diagnosis of an SEA. The patient underwent laminectomy with surgical drainage, where cultures showed the presence of Aggregatibacter aphrophilus, a bacterium of the HACEK group (Haemophilus species, Aggregatibacter species, Cardiobacterium hominis, Eikenella corrodens, and Kingella species), rarely involved in SEA. Following surgery, the patient was treated with intravenous ceftriaxone for 6 weeks, and this gave excellent results.

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2020

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