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1. Usefulness of the COVID-GRAM and CURB-65 scores for predicting severity in patients with COVID-19

Author: Carlos Armiñanzas, Francisco Arnaiz de las Revillas, Manuel Gutiérrez Cuadra, Ana Arnaiz, Marta Fernández Sampedro, Claudia González-Rico, Diego Ferrer, Víctor Mora, Borja Suberviola, Maite Latorre, Jorge Calvo, José Manuel Olmos, José Manuel Cifrián, and María Carmen Fariñas
Subjects: Coronavirus, COVID, CURB-65, COVID-GRAM, Severity score, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216
Abstract: Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the usefulness of COVID-GRAM and CURB-65 scores as predictors of the severity of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in Caucasian patients. Methods: This was a retrospective observational study including all adults with SARS-CoV-2 infection admitted to Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla from February to May 2020. Patients were stratified according to COVID-GRAM and CURB-65 scores as being at low–medium or high risk of critical illness. Univariate analysis, multivariate logistic regression models, receiver operating characteristic curve, and area under the curve (AUC) were calculated. Results: A total of 523 patients were included (51.8% male, 48.2% female; mean age 65.63 years (standard deviation 17.89 years)), of whom 110 (21%) presented a critical illness (intensive care unit admission 10.3%, 30-day mortality 13.8%). According to the COVID-GRAM score, 122 (23.33%) patients were classified as high risk; 197 (37.7%) presented a CURB-65 score ≥2. A significantly greater proportion of patients with critical illness had a high COVID-GRAM score (64.5% vs 30.5%; P < 0.001). The COVID-GRAM score emerged as an independent predictor of critical illness (odds ratio 9.40, 95% confidence interval 5.51–16.04; P < 0.001), with an AUC of 0.779. A high COVID-GRAM score showed an AUC of 0.88 for the prediction of 30-day mortality, while a CURB-65 ≥2 showed an AUC of 0.83. Conclusions: The COVID-GRAM score may be a useful tool for evaluating the risk of critical illness in Caucasian patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection. The CURB-65 score could be considered as an alternative.
Published: 2021
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2. Molecular characterization of multidrug resistant Enterobacterales strains isolated from liver and kidney transplant recipients in Spain

Author: Marta Fernández-Martínez, Claudia González-Rico, Mónica Gozalo-Margüello, Francesc Marco, Irene Gracia-Ahufinger, Maitane Aranzamendi, Ana M. Sánchez-Díaz, Teresa Vicente-Rangel, Fernando Chaves, Jorge Calvo Montes, Luis Martínez-Martínez, Maria Carmen Fariñas, and ENTHERE Study Group, the Group for Study of Infection in Transplantation of the Spanish Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (GESITRA-SEIMC) and the Spanish Network for Research in Infectious Diseases (REIPI)
Subjects: Medicine, Science
Abstract: Abstract The objective of this study was to analyse the mechanisms of resistance to carbapenems and other extended-spectrum-β-lactams and to determine the genetic relatedness of multidrug-resistant Enterobacterales (MDR-E) causing colonization or infection in solid-organ transplantation (SOT) recipients. Prospective cohort study in kidney (n = 142), liver (n = 98) or kidney/pancreas (n = 7) transplant recipients between 2014 and 2018 in seven Spanish hospitals. We included 531 MDR-E isolates from rectal swabs obtained before transplantation and weekly for 4–6 weeks after the procedure and 10 MDR-E from clinical samples related to an infection. Overall, 46.2% Escherichia coli, 35.3% Klebsiella pneumoniae, 6.5% Enterobacter cloacae, 6.3% Citrobacter freundii and 5.7% other species were isolated. The number of patients with MDR-E colonization post-transplantation (176; 71.3%) was 2.5-fold the number of patients colonized pre-transplantation (71; 28.7%). Extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs) and carbapenemases were detected in 78.0% and 21.1% of MDR-E isolates respectively. In nine of the 247 (3.6%) transplant patients, the microorganism causing an infection was the same strain previously cultured from surveillance rectal swabs. In our study we have observed a low rate of MDR-E infection in colonized patients 4–6 weeks post-transplantation. E. coli producing bla CTX-M-G1 and K. pneumoniae harbouring bla OXA-48 alone or with bla CTX-M-G1 were the most prevalent MDR-E colonization strains in SOT recipients.
Published: 2021
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3. Adherence to Human Colon Cells by Multidrug Resistant Enterobacterales Strains Isolated From Solid Organ Transplant Recipients With a Focus on Citrobacter freundii

Author: José Ramos-Vivas, Itziar Chapartegui-González, Marta Fernández-Martínez, Claudia González-Rico, John Barrett, Jesús Fortún, Rosa Escudero, Francesc Marco, Laura Linares, Javier Nieto, Maitane Aranzamendi, Patricia Muñoz, Maricela Valerio, Jose María Aguado, Fernando Chaves, Irene Gracia-Ahufinger, Aurora Paez-Vega, Luis Martínez-Martínez, and María Carmen Fariñas
Subjects: Enterobacterales, Citrobacter, epithelial cells, virulence factors, bacterial adherence, transplant recipient, Microbiology, QR1-502
Abstract: Enterobacteria species are common causes of hospital-acquired infections, which are associated with high morbidity and mortality rates. Immunocompromised patients such as solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients are especially at risk because they are frequently exposed to antibiotics in the course of their treatments. In this work, we used a collection of 106 Escherichia coli, 78 Klebsiella pneumoniae, 25 Enterobacter spp., and 24 Citrobacter spp. multidrug resistant strains isolated from transplant patients (hepatic, renal or renal/pancreatic) in order to examine their ability to adhere in vitro to HT-29 human colon cells, and to determine if some adhesive characteristics are associated with prevalence and persistence of these strains. A total of 33 E. coli (31%), 21 K. pneumoniae (27%), 7 Enterobacter spp. (28%), and 5 Citrobacter spp. (21%), adhered to the colon epithelial cells. Two main adherence patterns were observed in the four species analyzed, diffuse adherence, and aggregative adherence. Under transmission electronic microscopy (TEM), most bacteria lacked visible fimbria on their surface, despite their strong adherence to epithelial cells. None of the strains studied was able to induce any cytotoxic effect on HT-29 cells although some of them strongly colonizing both cells and glass coverslips at high density. Some of the strains failed to adhere to the epithelial cells but adhered strongly to the cover-slide, which shows that microscopy studies are mandatory to elucidate the adherence of bacteria to epithelial cells in vitro, and that quantitative assays using colony forming unit (CFUs) counting need to be supplemented with pictures to determine definitively if a bacterial strain adheres or not to animal cells in vitro. We report here, for the first time, the aggregative adherence pattern of two multidrug resistant (MDR) Citrobacter freundii strains isolated from human patients; importantly, biofilm formation in Citrobacter is totally dependent on the temperature; strong biofilms were formed at room temperature (RT) but not at 37°C, which can play an important role in the colonization of hospital surfaces. In conclusion, our results show that there is a great variety of adhesion phenotypes in multidrug-resistant strains that colonize transplanted patients.
Published: 2020
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4. Innate and Adaptive Immune Assessment at Admission to Predict Clinical Outcome in COVID-19 Patients

Author: David San Segundo, Francisco Arnáiz de las Revillas, Patricia Lamadrid-Perojo, Alejandra Comins-Boo, Claudia González-Rico, Marta Alonso-Peña, Juan Irure-Ventura, José Manuel Olmos, María Carmen Fariñas, and Marcos López-Hoyos
Subjects: SARS-CoV-2, flow cytometry, innate immunity, adaptive immunity, immunological profile, predictive model, Biology (General), QH301-705.5
Abstract: During the COVID-19 pandemic, many studies have been carried out to evaluate different immune system components to search for prognostic biomarkers of the disease. A broad multiparametric antibody panel of cellular and humoral components of the innate and the adaptative immune response in patients with active SARS-CoV-2 infection has been evaluated in this study. A total of 155 patients were studied at admission into our center and were categorized according to the requirement of oxygen therapy as mild or severe (the latter being those with the requirement). The patients with severe disease were older and had high ferritin, D-dimer, C-reactive protein, troponin, interleukin-6 (IL-6) levels, and neutrophilia with lymphopenia at admission. Moreover, the patients with mild symptoms had significantly increased circulating non-classical monocytes, innate lymphoid cells, and regulatory NK cells. In contrast, severe patients had a low frequency of Th1 and regulatory T cells with increased activated and exhausted CD8 phenotype (CD8+CD38+HLADR+ and CD8+CD27−CD28−, respectively). The predictive model included age, ferritin, D-dimer, lymph counts, C4, CD8+CD27−CD28−, and non-classical monocytes in the logistic regression analysis. The model predicted severity with an area under the curve of 78%. Both innate and adaptive immune parameters could be considered potential predictive biomarkers of the prognosis of COVID-19 disease.
Published: 2021
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5. Bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccination to prevent febrile and respiratory illness in adults (BRACE): secondary outcomes of a randomised controlled phase 3 trialResearch in context

Author: Laure F. Pittet, Nicole L. Messina, Ellie McDonald, Francesca Orsini, Simone Barry, Marc Bonten, John Campbell, Julio Croda, Mariana G. Croda, Margareth Dalcolmo, Kaya Gardiner, Amanda Gwee, Bruno Jardim, Marcus V.G. Lacerda, Michaela Lucas, David J. Lynn, Laurens Manning, Kirsten P. Perrett, Jeffrey J. Post, Cristina Prat-Aymerich, Peter C. Richmond, Jorge L. Rocha, Jesus Rodriguez-Baño, Adilia Warris, Nicholas J. Wood, Andrew Davidson, Nigel Curtis, Tenaya Jamieson, Nicole Messina, Thilanka Morawakage, Susan Perlen, Kirsten Perrett, Laure Pittet, Amber Sastry, Jia Wei Teo, Katherine Lee, Cecilia Moore, Suzanna Vidmar, Rashida Ali, Ross Dunn, Peta Edler, Grace Gell, Casey Goodall, Richard Hall, Ann Krastev, Nathan La, Nick McPhate, Thao Nguyen, Jack Ren, Luke Stevens, Ahmed Alamrousi, Rhian Bonnici, Thanh Dang, Susie Germano, Jenny Hua, Rebecca McElroy, Monica Razmovska, Scott Reddiex, Xiaofang Wang, Jeremy Anderson, Kristy Azzopardi, Vicki Bennett-Wood, Anna Czajko, Nadia Mazarakis, Conor McCafferty, Frances Oppedisano, Belinda Ortika, Casey Pell, Leena Spry, Ryan Toh, Sunitha Velagapudi, Amanda Vlahos, Ashleigh Wee-Hee, Pedro Ramos, Karina De La Cruz, Dinusha Gamage, Anushka Karunanayake, Isabella Mezzetti, Benjamin Ong, Ronita Singh, Enoshini Sooriyarachchi, Suellen Nicholson, Natalie Cain, Rianne Brizuela, Han Huang, Veronica Abruzzo, Morgan Bealing, Patricia Bimboese, Kirsty Bowes, Emma Burrell, Joyce Chan, Jac Cushnahan, Hannah Elborough, Olivia Elkington, Kieran Fahey, Monique Fernandez, Catherine Flynn, Sarah Fowler, Marie Gentile Andrit, Bojana Gladanac, Catherine Hammond, Norine Ma, Sam Macalister, Emmah Milojevic, Jesutofunmi Mojeed, Jill Nguyen, Liz O'Donnell, Nadia Olivier, Isabelle Ooi, Stephanie Reynolds, Lisa Shen, Barb Sherry, Judith Spotswood, Jamie Wedderburn, Angela Younes, Donna Legge, Jason Bell, Jo Cheah, Annie Cobbledick, Kee Lim, Sonja Elia, Lynne Addlem, Anna Bourke, Clare Brophy, Nadine Henare, Narelle Jenkins, Francesca Machingaifa, Skye Miller, Kirsten Mitchell, Sigrid Pitkin, Kate Wall, Paola Villanueva, Nigel Crawford, Wendy Norton, Niki Tan, Thilakavathi Chengodu, Diane Dawson, Victoria Gordon, Tony Korman, Jess O'Bryan, Sophie Agius, Samantha Bannister, Jess Bucholc, Alison Burns, Beatriz Camesella, John Carlin, Marianna Ciaverella, Maxwell Curtis, Stephanie Firth, Christina Guo, Matthew Hannan, Erin Hill, Sri Joshi, Katherine Lieschke, Megan Mathers, Sasha Odoi, Ashleigh Rak, Chris Richards, Leah Steve, Carolyn Stewart, Eva Sudbury, Helen Thomson, Emma Watts, Fiona Williams, Angela Young, Penny Glenn, Andrew Kaynes, Amandine Philippart De Floy, Sandy Buchanan, Thijs Sondag, Ivy Xie, Harriet Edmund, Bridie Byrne, Tom Keeble, Belle Ngien, Fran Noonan, Michelle Wearing-Smith, Alison Clarke, Pemma Davies, Oliver Eastwood, Alric Ellinghaus, Rachid Ghieh, Zahra Hilton, Emma Jennings, Athina Kakkos, Iris Liang, Katie Nicol, Sally O'Callaghan, Helen Osman, Gowri Rajaram, Sophia Ratcliffe, Victoria Rayner, Ashleigh Salmon, Angela Scheppokat, Aimee Stevens, Rebekah Street, Nicholas Toogood, Nicholas Wood, Twinkle Bahaduri, Therese Baulman, Jennifer Byrne, Candace Carter, Mary Corbett, Aiken Dao, Maria Desylva, Andrew Dunn, Evangeline Gardiner, Rosemary Joyce, Rama Kandasamy, Craig Munns, Lisa Pelayo, Ketaki Sharma, Katrina Sterling, Caitlin Uren, Clinton Colaco, Mark Douglas, Kate Hamilton, Adam Bartlett, Brendan McMullan, Pamela Palasanthiran, Phoebe Williams, Justin Beardsley, Nikki Bergant, Renier Lagunday, Kristen Overton, Jeffrey Post, Yasmeen Al-Hindawi, Sarah Barney, Anthony Byrne, Lee Mead, Marshall Plit, David Lynn, Saoirse Benson, Stephen Blake, Rochelle Botten, Tee Yee Chern, Georgina Eden, Liddy Griffith, Jane James, Miriam Lynn, Angela Markow, Domenic Sacca, Natalie Stevens, Steve Wesselingh, Catriona Doran, Alice Sawka, Sue Evans, Louise Goodchild, Christine Heath, Meredith Krieg, Helen Marshall, Mark McMillan, Mary Walker, Peter Richmond, Nelly Amenyogbe, Christina Anthony, Annabelle Arnold, Beth Arrowsmith, Rym Ben-Othman, Sharon Clark, Jemma Dunnill, Nat Eiffler, Krist Ewe, Carolyn Finucane, Lorraine Flynn, Camille Gibson, Lucy Hartnell, Elysia Hollams, Heidi Hutton, Lance Jarvis, Jane Jones, Jan Jones, Karen Jones, Jennifer Kent, Tobias Kollmann, Debbie Lalich, Wenna Lee, Rachel Lim, Sonia McAlister, Fiona McDonald, Andrea Meehan, Asma Minhaj, Lisa Montgomery, Melissa O'Donnell, Jaslyn Ong, Joanne Ong, Kimberley Parkin, Glady Perez, Catherine Power, Shadie Rezazadeh, Holly Richmond, Sally Rogers, Nikki Schultz, Margaret Shave, Patrycja Skut, Lisa Stiglmayer, Alexandra Truelove, Ushma Wadia, Rachael Wallace, Justin Waring, Michelle England, Erin Latkovic, Susan Herrmann, Marcus Lacerda, Paulo Henrique Andrade, Fabiane Bianca Barbosa, Dayanne Barros, Larissa Brasil, Ana Greyce Capella, Ramon Castro, Erlane Costa, Dilcimar de Souza, Maianne Dias, José Dias, Klenilson Ferreira, Paula Figueiredo, Thamires Freitas, Ana Carolina Furtado, Larissa Gama, Vanessa Godinho, Cintia Gouy, Daniele Hinojosa, Tyane Jardim, Joel Junior, Augustto Lima, Bernardo Maia, Adriana Marins, Kelry Mazurega, Tercilene Medeiros, Rosangela Melo, Marinete Moraes, Elizandra Nascimento, Juliana Neves, Maria Gabriela Oliveira, Thais Oliveira, Ingrid Oliveira, Arthur Otsuka, Rayssa Paes, Handerson Pereira, Gabrielle Pereira, Christiane Prado, Evelyn Queiroz, Laleyska Rodrigues, Bebeto Rodrigues, Vanderson Sampaio, Anna Gabriela Santos, Daniel Santos, Tilza Santos, Evelyn Santos, Ariandra Sartim, Ana Beatriz Silva, Juliana Silva, Emanuelle Silva, Mariana Simão, Caroline Soares, Antonny Sousa, Alexandre Trindade, Fernando Val, Adria Vasconcelos, Heline Vasconcelos, Carolinne Abreu, Katya Martinez Almeida, Camila Bitencourt de Andrade, Jhenyfer Thalyta Campos Angelo, Ghislaine Gonçalvez de Araújo Arcanjo, Bianca Maria Silva Menezes Arruda, Wellyngthon Espindola Ayala, Adelita Agripina Refosco Barbosa, Felipe Zampieri Vieira Batista, Fabiani de Morais Batista, Miriam de Jesus Costa, Mariana Garcia Croda, Lais Alves da Cruz, Roberta Carolina Pereira Diogo, Rodrigo Cezar Dutra Escobar, Iara Rodrigues Fernandes, Leticia Ramires Figueiredo, Leandro Galdino Cavalcanti Gonçalves, Sarita Lahdo, Joyce dos Santos Lencina, Guilherme Teodoro de Lima, Bruna Tayara LEOPOLDINA MEIRELES, Debora Quadros Moreira, Lilian Batista Silva Muranaka, Adriely de Oliveira, Karla Regina Warszawski de Oliveira, Matheus Vieira de Oliveira, Roberto Dias de Oliveira, Andrea Antonia Souza de Almeida dos Reis Pereira, Marco Puga, Caroliny Veron Ramos, Thaynara Haynara Souza da Rosa, Karla Lopes dos Santos, Claudinalva Ribeiro dos Santos, Dyenyffer Stéffany Leopoldina dos Santos, Karina Marques Santos, Paulo César Pereira da Silva, Paulo Victor Rocha da Silva, Débora dos Santos Silva, Patricia Vieira da Silva, Bruno Freitas da Rosa Soares, Mariana Gazzoni Sperotto, Mariana Mayumi Tadokoro, Daniel Tsuha, Hugo Miguel Ramos Vieira, Margareth Maria Pretti Dalcolmo, Cíntia Maria Lopes Alves da Paixão, Gabriela Corrêa E Castro, Simone Silva Collopy, Renato da Costa Silva, Samyra Almeida da Silveira, Alda Maria Da-Cruz, Alessandra Maria da Silva Passos de Carvalho, Rita de Cássia Batista, Maria Luciana Silva De Freitas, Aline Gerhardt de Oliveira Ferreira, Ana Paula Conceição de Souza, Paola Cerbino Doblas, Ayla Alcoforado da Silva dos Santos, Vanessa Cristine de Moraes dos Santos, Dayane Alves dos Santos Gomes, Anderson Lage Fortunato, Adriano Gomes-Silva, Monique Pinto Gonçalves, Paulo Leandro Garcia Meireless Junior, Estela Martins da Costa Carvalho, Fernando do Couto Motta, Ligia Maria Olivo de Mendonça, Girlene dos Santos Pandine, Rosa Maria Plácido Pereira, Ivan Ramos Maia, Jorge Luiz da Rocha, João Victor Paiva Romano, Glauce dos Santos, Erica Fernandes da Silva, Marilda Agudo Mendonça Teixeira de Siqueira, Ágatha Cristinne Prudêncio Soares, Sandra Franch Arroyo, Henny Ophorst-den Besten, Anna Boon, Karin M. Brakke, Axel Janssen, Marijke A.H. Koopmans, Toos Lemmens, Titia Leurink, Engelien Septer-Bijleveld, Kimberly Stadhouders, Darren Troeman, Marije van der Waal, Marjoleine van Opdorp, Nicolette van Sluis, Beatrijs Wolters, Jan Kluytmans, Jannie Romme, Wouter van den Bijllaardt, Linda van Mook, M.M.L (Miranda) van Rijen, P.M.G. Filius, Jet Gisolf, Frances Greven, Danique Huijbens, Robert Jan Hassing, R.C. Pon, Lieke Preijers, J.H. van Leusen, Harald Verheij, Wim Boersma, Evelien Brans, Paul Kloeg, Kitty Molenaar-Groot, Nhat Khanh Nguyen, Nienke Paternotte, Anke Rol, Lida Stooper, Helga Dijkstra, Esther Eggenhuizen, Lucas Huijs, Simone Moorlag, Mihai Netea, Eva Pranger, Esther Taks, Jaap ten Oever, Rob ter Heine, Kitty Blauwendraat, Bob Meek, Isil Erkaya, Houda Harbech, Nienke Roescher, Rifka Peeters, Menno te Riele, Carmen Zhou, Esther Calbo, Cristina Badia Marti, Emma Triviño Palomares, Tomás Perez Porcuna, Anabel Barriocanal, Ana Maria Barriocanal, Irma Casas, Jose Dominguez, Maria Esteve, Alicia Lacoma, Irene Latorre, Gemma Molina, Barbara Molina, Antoni Rosell, Sandra Vidal, Lydia Barrera, Natalia Bustos, Ines Portillo Calderón, David Gutierrez Campos, Jose Manuel Carretero, Angel Dominguez Castellano, Renato Compagnone, Encarnacion Ramirez de Arellano, Almudena de la Serna, Maria Dolores del Toro Lopez, Marie-Alix Clement Espindola, Ana Belen Martin Gutierrez, Alvaro Pascual Hernandez, Virginia Palomo Jiménez, Elisa Moreno, Nicolas Navarrete, Teresa Rodriguez Paño, Jesús Rodríguez-Baño, Enriqueta Tristán, Maria Jose Rios Villegas, Atsegiñe Canga Garces, Erika Castro Amo, Raquel Coya Guerrero, Josune Goikoetxea, Leticia Jorge, Cristina Perez, María Carmen Fariñas Álvarez, Manuel Gutierrez Cuadra, Francisco Arnaiz de las Revillas Almajano, Pilar Bohedo Garcia, Teresa Giménez Poderos, Claudia González Rico, Blanca Sanchez, Olga Valero, Noelia Vega, Anna Barnes, Helen Catterick, Tim Cranston, Phoebe Dawe, Emily Fletcher, Liam Fouracre, Alison Gifford, Neil Gow, John Kirkwood, Christopher Martin, Amy McAnew, Marcus Mitchell, Georgina Newman, Abby O'Connell, Jakob Onysk, Lynne Quinn, Shelley Rhodes, Samuel Stone, Lorrie Symons, Harry Tripp, Darcy Watkins, Bethany Whale, Alex Harding, Gemma Lockhart, Kate Sidaway-Lee, Sam Hilton, Sarah Manton, Daniel Webber-Rookes, Rachel Winder, James Moore, Freya Bateman, Michael Gibbons, Bridget Knight, Julie Moss, Sarah Statton, Josephine Studham, Lydia Hall, Will Moyle, and Tamsin Venton
Subjects: Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, Immunity, Heterologous, Health personnel, Randomised controlled trial, Primary prevention, Medicine (General), R5-920
Abstract: Summary: Background: Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination has off-target (non-specific) effects that are associated with protection against unrelated infections and decreased all-cause mortality in infants. We aimed to determine whether BCG vaccination prevents febrile and respiratory infections in adults. Methods: This randomised controlled phase 3 trial was done in 36 healthcare centres in Australia, Brazil, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Healthcare workers were randomised to receive BCG-Denmark (single 0.1 ml intradermal injection) or no BCG in a 1:1 ratio using a web-based procedure, stratified by stage, site, age, and presence of co-morbidity. The difference in occurrence of febrile or respiratory illness were measured over 12 months (prespecified secondary outcome) using the intention-to-treat (ITT) population. This trial is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT04327206. Findings: Between March 30, 2020, and April 1, 2021, 6828 healthcare workers were randomised to BCG-Denmark (n = 3417) or control (n = 3411; no intervention or placebo) groups. The 12-month adjusted estimated risk of ≥1 episode of febrile or respiratory illness was 66.8% in the BCG group (95% CI 65.3%–68.2%), compared with 63.4% in the control group (95% CI 61.8%–65.0%), a difference of +3.4 percentage points (95% CI +1.3% to +5.5%; p 0.002). The adjusted estimated risk of a severe episode (defined as being incapacitated for ≥3 consecutive days or hospitalised) was 19.4% in the BCG group (95% CI 18.0%–20.7%), compared with 18.8% in the control group (95% CI 17.4%–20.2%) a difference of +0.6 percentage points (95% CI −1.3% to +2.5%; p 0.6). Both groups had a similar number of episodes of illness, pneumonia, and hospitalisation. There were three deaths, all in the control group. There were no safety concerns following BCG vaccination. Interpretation: In contrast to the beneficial off-target effects reported following neonatal BCG in infants, a small increased risk of symptomatic febrile or respiratory illness was observed in the 12 months following BCG vaccination in adults. There was no evidence of a difference in the risk of severe disease. Funding: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Minderoo Foundation, Sarah and Lachlan Murdoch, the Royal Children's Hospital Foundation, Health Services Union NSW, the Peter Sowerby Foundation, SA Health, the Insurance Advisernet Foundation, the NAB Foundation, the Calvert-Jones Foundation, the Modara Pines Charitable Foundation, the UHG Foundation Pty Ltd, Epworth Healthcare, the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Swiss National Science Foundation and individual donors.
Published: 2024
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6. Specific and off-target immune responses following COVID-19 vaccination with ChAdOx1-S and BNT162b2 vaccines—an exploratory sub-study of the BRACE trialResearch in context

Author: Nicole L. Messina, Susie Germano, Rebecca McElroy, Rhian Bonnici, Branka Grubor-Bauk, David J. Lynn, Ellie McDonald, Suellen Nicholson, Kirsten P. Perrett, Laure F. Pittet, Rajeev Rudraraju, Natalie E. Stevens, Kanta Subbarao, Nigel Curtis, Andrew Davidson, Kaya Gardiner, Amanda Gwee, Tenaya Jamieson, Nicole Messina, Thilanka Morawakage, Susan Perlen, Kirsten Perrett, Laure Pittet, Amber Sastry, Jia Wei Teo, Francesca Orsini, Katherine Lee, Cecilia Moore, Suzanna Vidmar, Rashida Ali, Ross Dunn, Peta Edler, Grace Gell, Casey Goodall, Richard Hall, Ann Krastev, Nathan La, Nick McPhate, Thao Nguyen, Jack Ren, Luke Stevens, Ahmed Alamrousi, Thanh Dang, Jenny Hua, Monica Razmovska, Scott Reddiex, Xiaofang Wang, Jeremy Anderson, Kristy Azzopardi, Vicki Bennett-Wood, Anna Czajko, Nadia Mazarakis, Conor McCafferty, Frances Oppedisano, Belinda Ortika, Casey Pell, Leena Spry, Ryan Toh, Sunitha Velagapudi, Amanda Vlahos, Ashleigh Wee-Hee, Pedro Ramos, Karina De La Cruz, Dinusha Gamage, Anushka Karunanayake, Isabella Mezzetti, Benjamin Ong, Ronita Singh, Enoshini Sooriyarachchi, Natalie Cain, Rianne Brizuela, Han Huang, Veronica Abruzzo, Morgan Bealing, Patricia Bimboese, Kirsty Bowes, Emma Burrell, Joyce Chan, Jac Cushnahan, Hannah Elborough, Olivia Elkington, Kieran Fahey, Monique Fernandez, Catherine Flynn, Sarah Fowler, Marie Gentile Andrit, Bojana Gladanac, Catherine Hammond, Norine Ma, Sam Macalister, Emmah Milojevic, Jesutofunmi Mojeed, Jill Nguyen, Liz O’Donnell, Nadia Olivier, Isabelle Ooi, Stephanie Reynolds, Lisa Shen, Barb Sherry, Judith Spotswood, Jamie Wedderburn, Angela Younes, Donna Legge, Jason Bell, Jo Cheah, Annie Cobbledick, Kee Lim, Sonja Elia, Lynne Addlem, Anna Bourke, Clare Brophy, Nadine Henare, Narelle Jenkins, Francesca Machingaifa, Skye Miller, Kirsten Mitchell, Sigrid Pitkin, Kate Wall, Paola Villanueva, Nigel Crawford, Wendy Norton, Niki Tan, Thilakavathi Chengodu, Diane Dawson, Victoria Gordon, Tony Korman, Jess O’Bryan, Sophie Agius, Samantha Bannister, Jess Bucholc, Alison Burns, Beatriz Camesella, John Carlin, Marianna Ciaverella, Maxwell Curtis, Stephanie Firth, Christina Guo, Matthew Hannan, Erin Hill, Sri Joshi, Katherine Lieschke, Megan Mathers, Sasha Odoi, Ashleigh Rak, Chris Richards, Leah Steve, Carolyn Stewart, Eva Sudbury, Helen Thomson, Emma Watts, Fiona Williams, Angela Young, Penny Glenn, Andrew Kaynes, Amandine Philippart De Floy, Sandy Buchanan, Thijs Sondag, Ivy Xie, Harriet Edmund, Bridie Byrne, Tom Keeble, Belle Ngien, Fran Noonan, Michelle Wearing-Smith, Alison Clarke, Pemma Davies, Oliver Eastwood, Alric Ellinghaus, Rachid Ghieh, Zahra Hilton, Emma Jennings, Athina Kakkos, Iris Liang, Katie Nicol, Sally O’Callaghan, Helen Osman, Gowri Rajaram, Sophia Ratcliffe, Victoria Rayner, Ashleigh Salmon, Angela Scheppokat, Aimee Stevens, Rebekah Street, Nicholas Toogood, Nicholas Wood, Twinkle Bahaduri, Therese Baulman, Jennifer Byrne, Candace Carter, Mary Corbett, Aiken Dao, Maria Desylva, Andrew Dunn, Evangeline Gardiner, Rosemary Joyce, Rama Kandasamy, Craig Munns, Lisa Pelayo, Ketaki Sharma, Katrina Sterling, Caitlin Uren, Clinton Colaco, Mark Douglas, Kate Hamilton, Adam Bartlett, Brendan McMullan, Pamela Palasanthiran, Phoebe Williams, Justin Beardsley, Nikki Bergant, Renier Lagunday, Kristen Overton, Jeffrey Post, Yasmeen Al-Hindawi, Sarah Barney, Anthony Byrne, Lee Mead, Marshall Plit, David Lynn, Saoirse Benson, Stephen Blake, Rochelle Botten, Tee Yee Chern, Georgina Eden, Liddy Griffith, Jane James, Miriam Lynn, Angela Markow, Domenic Sacca, Natalie Stevens, Steve Wesselingh, Catriona Doran, Simone Barry, Alice Sawka, Sue Evans, Louise Goodchild, Christine Heath, Meredith Krieg, Helen Marshall, Mark McMillan, Mary Walker, Peter Richmond, Nelly Amenyogbe, Christina Anthony, Annabelle Arnold, Beth Arrowsmith, Rym Ben-Othman, Sharon Clark, Jemma Dunnill, Nat Eiffler, Krist Ewe, Carolyn Finucane, Lorraine Flynn, Camille Gibson, Lucy Hartnell, Elysia Hollams, Heidi Hutton, Lance Jarvis, Jane Jones, Jan Jones, Karen Jones, Jennifer Kent, Tobias Kollmann, Debbie Lalich, Wenna Lee, Rachel Lim, Sonia McAlister, Fiona McDonald, Andrea Meehan, Asma Minhaj, Lisa Montgomery, Melissa O’Donnell, Jaslyn Ong, Joanne Ong, Kimberley Parkin, Glady Perez, Catherine Power, Shadie Rezazadeh, Holly Richmond, Sally Rogers, Nikki Schultz, Margaret Shave, Patrycja Skut, Lisa Stiglmayer, Alexandra Truelove, Ushma Wadia, Rachael Wallace, Justin Waring, Michelle England, Erin Latkovic, Laurens Manning, Susan Herrmann, Michaela Lucas, Marcus Lacerda, Paulo Henrique Andrade, Fabiane Bianca Barbosa, Dayanne Barros, Larissa Brasil, Ana Greyce Capella, Ramon Castro, Erlane Costa, Dilcimar de Souza, Maianne Dias, José Dias, Klenilson Ferreira, Paula Figueiredo, Thamires Freitas, Ana Carolina Furtado, Larissa Gama, Vanessa Godinho, Cintia Gouy, Daniele Hinojosa, Bruno Jardim, Tyane Jardim, Joel Junior, Augustto Lima, Bernardo Maia, Adriana Marins, Kelry Mazurega, Tercilene Medeiros, Rosangela Melo, Marinete Moraes, Elizandra Nascimento, Juliana Neves, Maria Gabriela Oliveira, Thais Oliveira, Ingrid Oliveira, Arthur Otsuka, Rayssa Paes, Handerson Pereira, Gabrielle Pereira, Christiane Prado, Evelyn Queiroz, Laleyska Rodrigues, Bebeto Rodrigues, Vanderson Sampaio, Anna Gabriela Santos, Daniel Santos, Tilza Santos, Evelyn Santos, Ariandra Sartim, Ana Beatriz Silva, Juliana Silva, Emanuelle Silva, Mariana Simão, Caroline Soares, Antonny Sousa, Alexandre Trindade, Fernando Val, Adria Vasconcelos, Heline Vasconcelos, Julio Croda, Carolinne Abreu, Katya Martinez Almeida, Camila Bitencourt de Andrade, Jhenyfer Thalyta Campos Angelo, Ghislaine Gonçalvez de Araújo Arcanjo, Bianca Maria Silva Menezes Arruda, Wellyngthon Espindola Ayala, Adelita Agripina Refosco Barbosa, Felipe Zampieri Vieira Batista, Fabiani de Morais Batista, Miriam de Jesus Costa, Mariana Garcia Croda, Lais Alves da Cruz, Roberta Carolina Pereira Diogo, Rodrigo Cezar Dutra Escobar, Iara Rodrigues Fernandes, Leticia Ramires Figueiredo, Leandro Galdino Cavalcanti Gonçalves, Sarita Lahdo, Joyce dos Santos Lencina, Guilherme Teodoro de Lima, Larissa Santos Matos, Bruna Tayara Leopoldina Meireles, Debora Quadros Moreira, Lilian Batista Silva Muranaka, Adriely de Oliveira, Karla Regina Warszawski de Oliveira, Matheus Vieira de Oliveira, Roberto Dias de Oliveira, Andrea Antonia Souza de Almeida dos Reis Pereira, Marco Puga, Caroliny Veron Ramos, Thaynara Haynara Souza da Rosa, Karla Lopes dos Santos, Claudinalva Ribeiro dos Santos, Dyenyffer Stéffany Leopoldina dos Santos, Karina Marques Santos, Paulo César Pereira da Silva, Paulo Victor Rocha da Silva, Débora dos Santos Silva, Patricia Vieira da Silva, Bruno Freitas da Rosa Soares, Mariana Gazzoni Sperotto, Mariana Mayumi Tadokoro, Daniel Tsuha, Hugo Miguel Ramos Vieira, Margareth Maria Pretti Dalcolmo, Cíntia Maria Lopes Alves da Paixão, Gabriela Corrêa E Castro, Simone Silva Collopy, Renato da Costa Silva, Samyra Almeida da Silveira, Alda Maria Da-Cruz, Alessandra Maria da Silva Passos de Carvalho, Rita de Cássia Batista, Maria Luciana Silva De Freitas, Aline Gerhardt de Oliveira Ferreira, Ana Paula Conceição de Souza, Paola Cerbino Doblas, Ayla Alcoforado da Silva dos Santos, Vanessa Cristine de Moraes dos Santos, Dayane Alves dos Santos Gomes, Anderson Lage Fortunato, Adriano Gomes-Silva, Monique Pinto Gonçalves, Paulo Leandro Garcia Meireless Junior, Estela Martins da Costa Carvalho, Fernando do Couto Motta, Ligia Maria Olivo de Mendonça, Girlene dos Santos Pandine, Rosa Maria Plácido Pereira, Ivan Ramos Maia, Jorge Luiz da Rocha, João Victor Paiva Romano, Glauce dos Santos, Erica Fernandes da Silva, Marilda Agudo Mendonça Teixeira de Siqueira, Ágatha Cristinne Prudêncio Soares, Marc Bonten, Sandra Franch Arroyo, Henny Ophorst-den Besten, Anna Boon, Karin M. Brakke, Axel Janssen, Marijke A.H. Koopmans, Toos Lemmens, Titia Leurink, Cristina Prat-Aymerich, Engelien Septer-Bijleveld, Kimberly Stadhouders, Darren Troeman, Marije van der Waal, Marjoleine van Opdorp, Nicolette van Sluis, Beatrijs Wolters, Jan Kluytmans, Jannie Romme, Wouter van den Bijllaardt, Linda van Mook, M.M.L (Miranda) van Rijen, Margreet Filius, Jet Gisolf, Frances Greven, Danique Huijbens, Robert Jan Hassing, Roos Pon, Lieke Preijers, Joke van Leusen, Harald Verheij, Wim Boersma, Evelien Brans, Paul Kloeg, Kitty Molenaar-Groot, Nhat Khanh Nguyen, Nienke Paternotte, Anke Rol, Lida Stooper, Helga Dijkstra, Esther Eggenhuizen, Lucas Huijs, Simone Moorlag, Mihai Netea, Eva Pranger, Esther Taks, Jaap ten Oever, Rob ter Heine, Kitty Blauwendraat, Bob Meek, Isil Erkaya, Houda Harbech, Nienke Roescher, Rifka Peeters, Menno te Riele, Carmen Zhou, Esther Calbo, Cristina Badia Marti, Emma Triviño Palomares, Tomás Perez Porcuna, Anabel Barriocanal, Ana Maria Barriocanal, Irma Casas, Jose Dominguez, Maria Esteve, Alicia Lacoma, Irene Latorre, Gemma Molina, Barbara Molina, Antoni Rosell, Sandra Vidal, Lydia Barrera, Natalia Bustos, Ines Portillo Calderón, David Gutierrez Campos, Jose Manuel Carretero, Angel Dominguez Castellano, Renato Compagnone, Encarnacion Ramirez de Arellano, Almudena de la Serna, Maria Dolores del Toro Lopez, Marie-Alix Clement Espindola, Ana Belen Martin Gutierrez, Alvaro Pascual Hernandez, Virginia Palomo Jiménez, Elisa Moreno, Nicolas Navarrete, Teresa Rodriguez Paño, Jesús Rodríguez-Baño, Enriqueta Tristán, Maria Jose Rios Villegas, Atsegiñe Canga Garces, Erika Castro Amo, Raquel Coya Guerrero, Josune Goikoetxea, Leticia Jorge, Cristina Perez, María Carmen Fariñas Álvarez, Manuel Gutierrez Cuadra, Francisco Arnaiz de las Revillas Almajano, Pilar Bohedo Garcia, Teresa Giménez Poderos, Claudia González Rico, Blanca Sanchez, Olga Valero, Noelia Vega, John Campbell, Anna Barnes, Helen Catterick, Tim Cranston, Phoebe Dawe, Emily Fletcher, Liam Fouracre, Alison Gifford, John Kirkwood, Christopher Martin, Amy McAnew, Marcus Mitchell, Georgina Newman, Abby O’Connell, Jakob Onysk, Lynne Quinn, Shelley Rhodes, Samuel Stone, Lorrie Symons, Harry Tripp, Adilia Warris, Darcy Watkins, Bethany Whale, Alex Harding, Gemma Lockhart, Kate Sidaway-Lee, Sam Hilton, Sarah Manton, Daniel Webber-Rookes, Rachel Winder, James Moore, Freya Bateman, Michael Gibbons, Bridget Knight, Julie Moss, Sarah Statton, Josephine Studham, Lydia Hall, Will Moyle, and Tamsin Venton
Subjects: Vaccine, Off-target, Immunoregulation, Cytokine, SARS-CoV-2, Heterologous immunity, Medicine, Medicine (General), R5-920
Abstract: Summary: Background: The COVID-19 pandemic led to the rapid development and deployment of several highly effective vaccines against SARS-CoV-2. Recent studies suggest that these vaccines may also have off-target effects on the immune system. We sought to determine and compare the off-target effects of the adenovirus vector ChAdOx1-S (Oxford-AstraZeneca) and modified mRNA BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) vaccines on immune responses to unrelated pathogens. Methods: Prospective sub-study within the BRACE trial. Blood samples were collected from 284 healthcare workers before and 28 days after ChAdOx1-S or BNT162b2 vaccination. SARS-CoV-2-specific antibodies were measured using ELISA, and whole blood cytokine responses to specific (SARS-CoV-2) and unrelated pathogen stimulation were measured by multiplex bead array. Findings: Both vaccines induced robust SARS-CoV-2 specific antibody and cytokine responses. ChAdOx1-S vaccination increased cytokine responses to heat-killed (HK) Candida albicans and HK Staphylococcus aureus and decreased cytokine responses to HK Escherichia coli and BCG. BNT162b2 vaccination decreased cytokine response to HK E. coli and had variable effects on cytokine responses to BCG and resiquimod (R848). After the second vaccine dose, BNT162b2 recipients had greater specific and off-target cytokine responses than ChAdOx1-S recipients. Interpretation: ChAdOx1-S and BNT162b2 vaccines alter cytokine responses to unrelated pathogens, indicative of potential off-target effects. The specific and off-target effects of these vaccines differ in their magnitude and breadth. The clinical relevance of these findings is uncertain and needs further study. Funding: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, National Health and Medical Research Council, Swiss National Science Foundation and the Melbourne Children’s. BRACE trial funding is detailed in acknowledgements.
Published: 2024
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7. Contemporary use of cefazolin for MSSA infective endocarditis: analysis of a national prospective cohort

Author: Laura Herrera-Hidalgo, Patricia Muñoz, Ana Álvarez-Uría, David Alonso-Menchén, Rafael Luque-Marquez, Encarnación Gutiérrez-Carretero, María Del Carmen Fariñas, Jose Maria Miró, Miguel Angel Goenaga, Luis Eduardo López-Cortés, Basilio Angulo-Lara, Lucia Boix-Palop, Arístides de Alarcón, Fernando Fernández Sánchez, José Mª García de Lomas, Gabriel Rosas, Javier de la Torre Lima, Elena Bereciartua, María José Blanco Vidal, Roberto Blanco, María Victoria Boado, Marta Campaña Lázaro, Alejandro Crespo, Laura Guio Carrión, Mikel Del Álamo Martínez de Lagos, Gorane Euba Ugarte, Ane Josune Goikoetxea, Marta Ibarrola Hierro, José Ramón Iruretagoyena, Josu Irurzun Zuazabal, Leire López-Soria, Miguel Montejo, Javier Nieto, David Rodrigo, Regino Rodríguez, Yolanda Vitoria, Roberto Voces, Mª Victoria García López, Radka Ivanova Georgieva, Guillermo Ojeda, Isabel Rodríguez Bailón, Josefa Ruiz Morales, Ignacio Álvarez Rodríguez, Harkaitz Azkune Galparsoro, Elisa Berritu Boronat, Mª Jesús Bustinduy Odriozola, Cristina del Bosque Martín, Tomás Echeverría, Alberto Eizaguirre Yarza, Ana Fuentes, Miguel Ángel Goenaga, Muskilda Goyeneche del Río, Ángela Granda Bauza, José Antonio Iribarren, Xabier Kortajarena Urkola, José Ignacio Pérez-Moreiras López, Ainhoa Rengel Jiménez, Karlos Reviejo, Alberto Sáez Berbejillo, Elou Sánchez Haza, Rosa Sebastián Alda, Itziar Solla Ruiz, Irati Unamuno Ugartemendia, Diego Vicente Anza, Iñaki Villanueva Benito, Mar Zabalo Arrieta, Rafael Carrasco, Vicente Climent, Patricio Llamas, Esperanza Merino, Joaquín Plazas, Sergio Reus, Alberto Bouzas, Brais Castelo, José Cuenca, Laura Gutiérrez, Lucía Ramos, María Rodríguez Mayo, Joaquín Manuel Serrano, Dolores Sousa Regueiro, Francisco Javier Martínez, Mª del Mar Alonso, Beatriz Castro, Teresa Delgado Melian, Javier Fernández Sarabia, Dácil García Rosado, Julia González González, Juan Lacalzada, Lissete Lorenzo de la Peña, Alina Pérez Ramírez, Pablo Prada Arrondo, Fermín Rodríguez Moreno, Antonio Plata Ciezar, José Mª Reguera Iglesias, Víctor Asensi Álvarez, Carlos Costas, Jesús de la Hera, Jonnathan Fernández Suárez, Lisardo Iglesias Fraile, Víctor León Arguero, José López Menéndez, Pilar Mencia Bajo, Carlos Morales, Alfonso Moreno Torrico, Carmen Palomo, Begoña Paya Martínez, Ángeles Rodríguez Esteban, Raquel Rodríguez García, Mauricio Telenti Asensio, Manuel Almela, Juan Ambrosioni, Manuel Azqueta, Mercè Brunet, Marta Bodro, Ramón Cartañá, Guillermo Cuervo, Carlos Falces, Mariana J Fernández-Pittol, Guillermina Fita, David Fuster, Cristina García de la Mària, Delia García-Pares, Marta Hernández-Meneses, Jaume Llopis Pérez, Francesc Marco, José M. Miró, Asunción Moreno, David Nicolás, Salvador Ninot, Eduardo Quintana, Carlos Paré, Daniel Pereda, Juan M. Pericás, José L. Pomar, José Ramírez, Mercè Roque, Irene Rovira, Elena Sandoval, Marta Sitges, Dolors Soy, Adrián Téllez, José M. Tolosana, Bárbara Vidal, Jordi Vila, Iván Adán, David Alonso, Juan Carlos Alonso, Javier Bermejo, Emilio Bouza, Gregorio Cuerpo Caballero, Antonia Delgado Montero, Agustín Estévez, Ramón Fortuny Ribas, Esther Gargallo, Mª Eugenia García Leoni, Ana González Mansilla, Francisco Javier González Moraga, Víctor González Ramallo, Martha Kestler Hernández, Amaia Mari Hualde, Marina Machado, Mercedes Marín, Manuel Martínez-Sellés, Rosa Melero, Diego Monzón, María Olmedo, Álvaro Pedraz, Blanca Pinilla, Ángel Pinto, Cristina Rincón, Hugo Rodríguez-Abella, Marta Rodríguez-Créixems, Eduardo Sánchez-Pérez, Antonio Segado, Neera Toledo, Maricela Valerio, Pilar Vázquez, Eduardo Verde Moreno, Sofía de la Villa, Isabel Antorrena, Belén Loeches, Mar Moreno, Ulises Ramírez, Verónica Rial Bastón, María Romero, Sandra Rosillo, Jesús Agüero Balbín, Cristina Amado Fernández, Carlos Armiñanzas Castillo, Francisco Arnaiz de las Revillas, Manuel Cobo Belaustegui, María Carmen Fariñas, Concepción Fariñas-Álvarez, Marta Fernández Sampedro, Iván García, Claudia González Rico, Laura Gutiérrez-Fernández, Manuel Gutiérrez-Cuadra, José Gutiérrez Díez, Marcos Pajarón, José Antonio Parra, Ramón Teira, Jesús Zarauza, Jorge Calderón Parra, Marta Cobo, Fernando Domínguez, Pablo García Pavía, Ana Fernández Cruz, Antonio Ramos-Martínez, Isabel Sánchez Romero, Tomasa Centella, José Manuel Hermida, José Luis Moya, Pilar Martín-Dávila, Enrique Navas, Enrique Oliva, Alejandro del Río, Jorge Rodríguez-Roda Stuart, Soledad Ruiz, Carmen Hidalgo Tenorio, Sergio Sequera, Manuel Almendro Delia, Omar Araji, José Miguel Barquero, Román Calvo Jambrina, Marina de Cueto, Juan Gálvez Acebal, Irene Méndez, Isabel Morales, José Antonio Lepe, José López-Haldón, Rafael Luque-Márquez, Guillermo Marín, Antonio Ortiz-Carrellán, Eladio Sánchez-Domínguez, Luis Javier Alonso, Pedro Azcárate, José Manuel Azcona Gutiérrez, José Ramón Blanco, Estíbaliz Corral Armas, Lara García-Álvarez, José Antonio Oteo, Antonio Barros Membrilla, Antonino Ginel Iglesias, Sara Grillo, Rubén Leta Petracca, Joaquín López-Contreras, María Alba Rivera Martínez, M. Álvarez, A.L. Fernández, Amparo Martínez, A. Prieto, Benito Regueiro, E. Tijeira, Marino Vega, Amaia Aguirre Quiñonero, Ángela Alonso Miñambres, Juan Carlos Gainzarain Arana, Sara González de Alaiza Ortega, Miguel Ángel Morán Rodríguez, Anai Moreno Rodríguez, Zuriñe Ortiz de Zárate, José Joaquín Portu Zapirain, Ester Sáez de Adana Arroniz, Daisy Carolina Sorto Sánchez, Sánchez-Porto Antonio, Úbeda Iglesias Alejandro, José Mª Arribas Leal, Elisa García Vázquez, Alicia Hernández Torres, Ana Blázquez, Gonzalo de la Morena Valenzuela, Ángel Alonso, Javier Aramburu, Felicitas Elena Calvo, Paola Tarabini-Castellani, Eva Heredero Gálvez, Carolina Maicas Bellido, José Largo Pau, Mª Antonia Sepúlveda, Pilar Toledano Sierra, Sadaf Zafar Iqbal-Mirza, Eva Cascales Alcolea, Ivan Keituqwa Yañez, Julián Navarro Martínez, Ana Peláez Ballesta, Eduardo Moreno Escobar, Alejandro Peña Monje, Valme Sánchez Cabrera, David Vinuesa García, María Arrizabalaga Asenjo, Carmen Cifuentes Luna, Juana Núñez Morcillo, Mª Cruz Pérez Seco, Aroa Villoslada Gelabert, Carmen Aured Guallar, Nuria Fernández Abad, Pilar García Mangas, Marta Matamala Adell, Mª Pilar Palacián Ruiz, Juan Carlos Porres, Begoña Alcaraz Vidal, María Jesús Del Amor Espín, Francisco Buendía, Roberto Jiménez Sánchez, Rosario Mármol, Francisco Martínez, Antonio Meseguer, Beatriz Pérez, Leticia Risco, Zoser Saura, Vanina Silva, Mª Belén Villmarín, Mª Ángels Ribas Blanco, Enrique Ruiz de Gopegui Bordes, Laura Vidal Bonet, Miquel Vives Borràs, Mª Carmen Bellón Munera, Elena Escribano Garaizabal, Antonia Tercero Martínez, Juan Carlos Segura Luque, Cristina Badía, Lucía Boix Palop, Mariona Xercavins, Sónia Ibars, Xerach Bosch, Eloy Gómez Nebreda, Ibalia Horcajada Herrera, Irene Menduiña Gallego, Imanol Pulido, Héctor Marrero Santiago, Isabel de Miguel Martínez, Elena Pisos Álamo, Daniel San Román Sánchez, Jorge Boan Pérez, Eva Mª Aguilar Blanco, Mercedes Catalán González, María Angélica Corres Peiretti, Andrea Eixerés Esteve, Laura Domínguez Pérez, Santiago de Cossío Tejido, Francisco Galván Román, José Antonio García Robles, Francisco López Medrano, Mª Jesús López Gude, Mª Ángeles Orellana Miguel, Patrick Pilkington, Yolanda Revilla Ostalaza, Juan Ruiz Morales, Sebastián Ruiz Solís, Ana Sabín Collado, Marcos Sánchez Fernández, Javier Solera Rallo, Jorge Solís Martín, Francesc Escrihuela-Vidal, Jordi Carratalà, Inmaculada Grau, Carmen Ardanuy, Dámaris Berbel, José Carlos Sánchez Salado, Oriol Alegre, Alejandro Ruiz Majoral, Fabrizio Sbraga, Arnau Blasco, Laura Gracia Sánchez, Iván Sánchez-Rodríguez, Gonzalo Aldamiz, Beatriz Álvarez, Marina Bernal Palacios, Alfonso Cabello Úbeda, Ricardo Fernández Roblas, Rafael Hernández, Victoria Andrea Hortigüela Martín, Andrea Kallmeyer, Cristina Landaeta Kancev, Marta Martín, Miguel Morante Ruiz, Miguel Ángel Navas Lobato, Ana María Pello, Laura Prieto, Marta Tomás Mallebrera, Laura Varela, Mireia de la Peña Triguero, Ruth Esther Figueroa Cerón, Lara Ruiz Gómez, Mireia Ble, Juan Pablo Horcajada Gallego, Antonio José Ginel, Inmaculada López, Alexandra Mas, Antoni Mestres, Lluís Molina, Ramón Serrat, Núria Ribas, Francisca Sánchez, Ana Silverio, Marina Suárez, Luisa Sorlí, Lluís Recasens, Manuel Taurón, María Fernández Regueras, María Ángeles Mantecón Vallejo, José Ángel Pérez Rivera, Nuria Sánchez Mata, Antonia Calvo Cano, Miguel Fajardo Olivares, María Victoria Millán Núñez, and Agustín Muñoz Sanz
Subjects: Infective endocarditis, Methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus, Cefazolin, Antistaphylococcal penicillin, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216
Abstract: Objectives: This study aimed to assess the real use of cefazolin for methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) infective endocarditis (IE) in the Spanish National Endocarditis Database (GAMES) and to compare it with antistaphylococcal penicillin (ASP). Methods: Prospective cohort study with retrospective analysis of a cohort of MSSA IE treated with cloxacillin and/or cefazolin. Outcomes assessed were relapse; intra-hospital, overall, and endocarditis-related mortality; and adverse events. Risk of renal toxicity with each treatment was evaluated separately. Results: We included 631 IE episodes caused by MSSA treated with cloxacillin and/or cefazolin. Antibiotic treatment was cloxacillin, cefazolin, or both in 537 (85%), 57 (9%), and 37 (6%) episodes, respectively. Patients treated with cefazolin had significantly higher rates of comorbidities (median Charlson Index 7, P
Published: 2023
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8. Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccination for protection against recurrent herpes labialis: a nested randomised controlled trialResearch in context

Author: Laure F. Pittet, Cecilia L. Moore, Ellie McDonald, Simone Barry, Marc Bonten, John Campbell, Julio Croda, Margareth Dalcolmo, Andrew Davidson, Mark W. Douglas, Kaya Gardiner, Amanda Gwee, Bruno Jardim, Marcus V.G. Lacerda, Michaela Lucas, David J. Lynn, Laurens Manning, Roberto D. de Oliveira, Kirsten P. Perrett, Cristina Prat-Aymerich, Peter C. Richmond, Jorge L. Rocha, Jesus Rodriguez-Baño, Adilia Warris, Nicholas J. Wood, Nicole L. Messina, Nigel Curtis, Tenaya Jamieson, Nicole Messina, Thilanka Morawakage, Susan Perlen, Kirsten Perrett, Laure Pittet, Amber Sastry, Jia Wei Teo, Francesca Orsini, Katherine Lee, Cecilia Moore, Suzanna Vidmar, Rashida Ali, Ross Dunn, Peta Edler, Grace Gell, Casey Goodall, Richard Hall, Ann Krastev, Nathan La, Nick McPhate, Thao Nguyen, Jack Ren, Luke Stevens, Ahmed Alamrousi, Rhian Bonnici, Thanh Dang, Susie Germano, Jenny Hua, Rebecca McElroy, Monica Razmovska, Scott Reddiex, Xiaofang Wang, Jeremy Anderson, Kristy Azzopardi, Vicki Bennett-Wood, Anna Czajko, Nadia Mazarakis, Conor McCafferty, Frances Oppedisano, Belinda Ortika, Casey Pell, Leena Spry, Ryan Toh, Sunitha Velagapudi, Amanda Vlahos, Ashleigh Wee-Hee, Pedro Ramos, Karina De La Cruz, Dinusha Gamage, Anushka Karunanayake, Isabella Mezzetti, Benjamin Ong, Ronita Singh, Enoshini Sooriyarachchi, Suellen Nicholson, Natalie Cain, Rianne Brizuela, Han Huang, Veronica Abruzzo, Morgan Bealing, Patricia Bimboese, Kirsty Bowes, Emma Burrell, Joyce Chan, Jac Cushnahan, Hannah Elborough, Olivia Elkington, Kieran Fahey, Monique Fernandez, Catherine Flynn, Sarah Fowler, Marie Gentile Andrit, Bojana Gladanac, Catherine Hammond, Norine Ma, Sam Macalister, Emmah Milojevic, Jesutofunmi Mojeed, Jill Nguyen, Liz O'Donnell, Nadia Olivier, Isabelle Ooi, Stephanie Reynolds, Lisa Shen, Barb Sherry, Judith Spotswood, Jamie Wedderburn, Angela Younes, Donna Legge, Jason Bell, Jo Cheah, Annie Cobbledick, Kee Lim, Sonja Elia, Lynne Addlem, Anna Bourke, Clare Brophy, Nadine Henare, Narelle Jenkins, Francesca Machingaifa, Skye Miller, Kirsten Mitchell, Sigrid Pitkin, Kate Wall, Paola Villanueva, Nigel Crawford, Wendy Norton, Niki Tan, Thilakavathi Chengodu, Diane Dawson, Victoria Gordon, Tony Korman, Jess O'Bryan, Sophie Agius, Samantha Bannister, Jess Bucholc, Alison Burns, Beatriz Camesella, John Carlin, Marianna Ciaverella, Maxwell Curtis, Stephanie Firth, Christina Guo, Matthew Hannan, Erin Hill, Sri Joshi, Katherine Lieschke, Megan Mathers, Sasha Odoi, Ashleigh Rak, Chris Richards, Leah Steve, Carolyn Stewart, Eva Sudbury, Helen Thomson, Emma Watts, Fiona Williams, Angela Young, Penny Glenn, Andrew Kaynes, Amandine Philippart De Floy, Sandy Buchanan, Thijs Sondag, Ivy Xie, Harriet Edmund, Bridie Byrne, Tom Keeble, Belle Ngien, Fran Noonan, Michelle Wearing-Smith, Alison Clarke, Pemma Davies, Oliver Eastwood, Alric Ellinghaus, Rachid Ghieh, Zahra Hilton, Emma Jennings, Athina Kakkos, Iris Liang, Katie Nicol, Sally O'Callaghan, Helen Osman, Gowri Rajaram, Sophia Ratcliffe, Victoria Rayner, Ashleigh Salmon, Angela Scheppokat, Aimee Stevens, Rebekah Street, Nicholas Toogood, Nicholas Wood, Twinkle Bahaduri, Therese Baulman, Jennifer Byrne, Candace Carter, Mary Corbett, Aiken Dao, Maria Desylva, Andrew Dunn, Evangeline Gardiner, Rosemary Joyce, Rama Kandasamy, Craig Munns, Lisa Pelayo, Ketaki Sharma, Katrina Sterling, Caitlin Uren, Clinton Colaco, Mark Douglas, Kate Hamilton, Adam Bartlett, Brendan McMullan, Pamela Palasanthiran, Phoebe Williams, Justin Beardsley, Nikki Bergant, Renier Lagunday, Kristen Overton, Jeffrey Post, Yasmeen Al-Hindawi, Sarah Barney, Anthony Byrne, Lee Mead, Marshall Plit, David Lynn, Saoirse Benson, Stephen Blake, Rochelle Botten, Tee Yee Chern, Georgina Eden, Liddy Griffith, Jane James, Miriam Lynn, Angela Markow, Domenic Sacca, Natalie Stevens, Steve Wesselingh, Catriona Doran, Alice Sawka, Sue Evans, Louise Goodchild, Christine Heath, Meredith Krieg, Helen Marshall, Mark McMillan, Mary Walker, Peter Richmond, Nelly Amenyogbe, Christina Anthony, Annabelle Arnold, Beth Arrowsmith, Rym Ben-Othman, Sharon Clark, Jemma Dunnill, Nat Eiffler, Krist Ewe, Carolyn Finucane, Lorraine Flynn, Camille Gibson, Lucy Hartnell, Elysia Hollams, Heidi Hutton, Lance Jarvis, Jane Jones, Jan Jones, Karen Jones, Jennifer Kent, Tobias Kollmann, Debbie Lalich, Wenna Lee, Rachel Lim, Sonia McAlister, Fiona McDonald, Andrea Meehan, Asma Minhaj, Lisa Montgomery, Melissa O'Donnell, Jaslyn Ong, Joanne Ong, Kimberley Parkin, Glady Perez, Catherine Power, Shadie Rezazadeh, Holly Richmond, Sally Rogers, Nikki Schultz, Margaret Shave, Patrycja Skut, Lisa Stiglmayer, Alexandra Truelove, Ushma Wadia, Rachael Wallace, Justin Waring, Michelle England, Erin Latkovic, Susan Herrmann, Marcus Lacerda, Paulo Henrique Andrade, Fabiane Bianca Barbosa, Dayanne Barros, Larissa Brasil, Ana Greyce Capella, Ramon Castro, Erlane Costa, Dilcimar de Souza, Maianne Dias, José Dias, Klenilson Ferreira, Paula Figueiredo, Thamires Freitas, Ana Carolina Furtado, Larissa Gama, Vanessa Godinho, Cintia Gouy, Daniele Hinojosa, Tyane Jardim, Joel Junior, Augustto Lima, Bernardo Maia, Adriana Marins, Kelry Mazurega, Tercilene Medeiros, Rosangela Melo, Marinete Moraes, Elizandra Nascimento, Juliana Neves, Maria Gabriela Oliveira, Thais Oliveira, Ingrid Oliveira, Arthur Otsuka, Rayssa Paes, Handerson Pereira, Gabrielle Pereira, Christiane Prado, Evelyn Queiroz, Laleyska Rodrigues, Bebeto Rodrigues, Vanderson Sampaio, Anna Gabriela Santos, Daniel Santos, Tilza Santos, Evelyn Santos, Ariandra Sartim, Ana Beatriz Silva, Juliana Silva, Emanuelle Silva, Mariana Simão, Caroline Soares, Antonny Sousa, Alexandre Trindade, Fernando Val, Adria Vasconcelos, Heline Vasconcelos, Carolinne Abreu, Katya Martinez Almeida, Camila Bitencourt de Andrade, Jhenyfer Thalyta Campos Angelo, Ghislaine Gonçalvez de Araújo Arcanjo, Bianca Maria Silva Menezes Arruda, Wellyngthon Espindola Ayala, Adelita Agripina Refosco Barbosa, Felipe Zampieri Vieira Batista, Fabiani de Morais Batista, Miriam de Jesus Costa, Mariana Garcia Croda, Lais Alves da Cruz, Roberta Carolina Pereira Diogo, Rodrigo Cezar Dutra Escobar, Iara Rodrigues Fernandes, Leticia Ramires Figueiredo, Leandro Galdino Cavalcanti Gonçalves, Sarita Lahdo, Joyce dos Santos Lencina, Guilherme Teodoro de Lima, Larissa Santos Matos, Bruna Tayara Leopoldina Meireles, Debora Quadros Moreira, Lilian Batista Silva Muranaka, Adriely de Oliveira, Karla Regina Warszawski de Oliveira, Matheus Vieira de Oliveira, Roberto Dias de Oliveira, Andrea Antonia Souza de Almeida dos Reis Pereira, Marco Puga, Caroliny Veron Ramos, Thaynara Haynara Souza da Rosa, Karla Lopes dos Santos, Claudinalva Ribeiro dos Santos, Dyenyffer Stéffany Leopoldina dos Santos, Karina Marques Santos, Paulo César Pereira da Silva, Paulo Victor Rocha da Silva, Débora dos Santos Silva, Patricia Vieira da Silva, Bruno Freitas da Rosa Soares, Mariana Gazzoni Sperotto, Mariana Mayumi Tadokoro, Daniel Tsuha, Hugo Miguel Ramos Vieira, Margareth Maria Pretti Dalcolmo, Cíntia Maria Lopes Alves da Paixão, Gabriela Corrêa E Castro, Simone Silva Collopy, Renato da Costa Silva, Samyra Almeida da Silveira, Alda Maria Da-Cruz, Alessandra Maria da Silva Passos de Carvalho, Rita de Cássia Batista, Maria Luciana Silva De Freitas, Aline Gerhardt de Oliveira Ferreira, Ana Paula Conceição de Souza, Paola Cerbino Doblas, Ayla Alcoforado da Silva dos Santos, Vanessa Cristine de Moraes dos Santos, Dayane Alves dos Santos Gomes, Anderson Lage Fortunato, Adriano Gomes-Silva, Monique Pinto Gonçalves, Paulo Leandro Garcia Meireless Junior, Estela Martins da Costa Carvalho, Fernando do Couto Motta, Ligia Maria Olivo de Mendonça, Girlene dos Santos Pandine, Rosa Maria Plácido Pereira, Ivan Ramos Maia, Jorge Luiz da Rocha, João Victor Paiva Romano, Glauce dos Santos, Erica Fernandes da Silva, Marilda Agudo Mendonça Teixeira de Siqueira, Ágatha Cristinne Prudêncio Soares, Sandra Franch Arroyo, Henny Ophorst-den Besten, Anna Boon, Karin M. Brakke, Axel Janssen, Marijke A.H. Koopmans, Toos Lemmens, Titia Leurink, Engelien Septer-Bijleveld, Kimberly Stadhouders, Darren Troeman, Marije van der Waal, Marjoleine van Opdorp, Nicolette van Sluis, Beatrijs Wolters, Jan Kluytmans, Jannie Romme, Wouter van den Bijllaardt, Linda van Mook, M.M.L (Miranda) van Rijen, P.M.G. Filius, Jet Gisolf, Frances Greven, Danique Huijbens, Robert Jan Hassing, R.C. Pon, Lieke Preijers, J.H. van Leusen, Harald Verheij, Wim Boersma, Evelien Brans, Paul Kloeg, Kitty Molenaar-Groot, Nhat Khanh Nguyen, Nienke Paternotte, Anke Rol, Lida Stooper, Helga Dijkstra, Esther Eggenhuizen, Lucas Huijs, Simone Moorlag, Mihai Netea, Eva Pranger, Esther Taks, Jaap ten Oever, Rob ter Heine, Kitty Blauwendraat, Bob Meek, Isil Erkaya, Houda Harbech, Nienke Roescher, Rifka Peeters, Menno te Riele, Carmen Zhou, Esther Calbo, Cristina Badia Marti, Emma Triviño Palomares, Tomás Perez Porcuna, Anabel Barriocanal, Ana Maria Barriocanal, Irma Casas, Jose Dominguez, Maria Esteve, Alicia Lacoma, Irene Latorre, Gemma Molina, Barbara Molina, Antoni Rosell, Sandra Vidal, Lydia Barrera, Natalia Bustos, Ines Portillo Calderón, David Gutierrez Campos, Jose Manuel Carretero, Angel Dominguez Castellano, Renato Compagnone, Encarnacion Ramirez de Arellano, Almudena de la Serna, Maria Dolores del Toro Lopez, Marie-Alix Clement Espindola, Ana Belen Martin Gutierrez, Alvaro Pascual Hernandez, Virginia Palomo Jiménez, Elisa Moreno, Nicolas Navarrete, Teresa Rodriguez Paño, Jesús Rodríguez-Baño, Enriqueta Tristán, Maria Jose Rios Villegas, Atsegiñe Canga Garces, Erika Castro Amo, Raquel Coya Guerrero, Josune Goikoetxea, Leticia Jorge, Cristina Perez, María Carmen Fariñas Álvarez, Manuel Gutierrez Cuadra, Francisco Arnaiz de las Revillas Almajano, Pilar Bohedo Garcia, Teresa Giménez Poderos, Claudia González Rico, Blanca Sanchez, Olga Valero, Noelia Vega, Anna Barnes, Helen Catterick, Tim Cranston, Phoebe Dawe, Emily Fletcher, Liam Fouracre, Alison Gifford, John Kirkwood, Christopher Martin, Amy McAnew, Marcus Mitchell, Georgina Newman, Abby O'Connell, Jakob Onysk, Lynne Quinn, Shelley Rhodes, Samuel Stone, Lorrie Symons, Harry Tripp, Darcy Watkins, Bethany Whale, Alex Harding, Gemma Lockhart, Kate Sidaway-Lee, Sam Hilton, Sarah Manton, Daniel Webber-Rookes, Rachel Winder, James Moore, Freya Bateman, Michael Gibbons, Bridget Knight, Julie Moss, Sarah Statton, Josephine Studham, Lydia Hall, Will Moyle, and Tamsin Venton
Subjects: Herpes simplex virus, Cold sore, Herpes labialis, Bacille Calmette-Guérin, Mycobacterium bovis, Prevention, Medicine (General), R5-920
Abstract: Summary: Background: Recurrences of herpes simplex virus (HSV) in the orofacial region (herpes labialis or cold sores) impact quality-of-life. We aimed to study whether the bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine can attenuate cold sore recurrences through off-target immunomodulatory effects. Methods: In this nested randomised controlled trial within the multicentre, phase 3 BRACE trial, 6828 healthcare workers were randomised in 36 sites in Australia, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom and Brazil, to receive BCG-Denmark or no BCG (1:1 ratio using a web-based procedure) and followed for 12 months with 3-monthly questionnaires. Exclusion criteria included contraindication to BCG vaccine or previous vaccination with BCG within the past year, any other live-attenuated vaccine within the last month, or any COVID-specific vaccine. The intervention group received one intradermal dose of 0.1 mL of BCG-Denmark corresponding to 2−8 x 105 colony forming units of Mycobacterium bovis, Danish strain 1331. The primary outcome was the difference in restricted mean survival time (i.e., time to first cold-sore recurrence), in participants with frequent recurrent herpes labialis (≥4 recurrences/year), analysed by intention-to-treat. Secondary outcomes addressed additional questions, including analyses in other sub-populations. Adverse events were monitored closely during the first 3 months and were reported in all participants who received one dose of study drug according to intervention received. The BRACE trial is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT04327206. Findings: Between March 30, 2020 and February 18, 2021, 84 individuals with frequent recurrent cold sores were randomly assigned to BCG (n = 38) or control (n = 46). The average time to first cold-sore recurrence was 1.55 months longer in the BCG group (95% CI 0.27–2.82, p = 0.02) than the control group (hazard ratio 0.54, 95% CI 0.32–0.91; intention-to-treat). The beneficial effect of BCG was greater in the as-treated population (difference 1.91 months, 95% CI 0.69–3.12, p = 0.003; hazard ratio 0.45, 95% CI 0.26–0.76). In prespecified subgroup analyses, only sex modified the treatment effect (interaction p = 0.007), with benefit restricted to males. Over 12 months, a greater proportion of participants in the BCG group compared with the control group reported a decrease in duration (61% vs 21%), severity (74% vs 21%), frequency (55% vs 21%), and impact on quality of life (42% vs 15%) of cold sore recurrences. In participants who had ever had a cold sore, there was also a decrease in self-reported burden of recurrences in the BCG group. In participants who had never had a cold sore, there was an increased risk of a first episode in the BCG group (risk difference 1.4%; 95% CI 0.3–2.6%, p = 0.02). There were no safety concerns. Interpretation: BCG-Denmark vaccination had a beneficial effect on herpes labialis, particularly in males with frequent recurrences, but may increase the risk of a first cold sore. Funding: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Minderoo Foundation, Sarah and Lachlan Murdoch, the Royal Children's Hospital Foundation, Health Services Union NSW, the Peter Sowerby Foundation, SA Health, the Insurance Advisernet Foundation, the NAB Foundation, the Calvert-Jones Foundation, the Modara Pines Charitable Foundation, the UHG Foundation Pty Ltd, Epworth Healthcare, and individual donors.
Published: 2023
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9. Risk factors for Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Infections in Solid Organ Transplant recipients: a multinational case-control study

Author: Carlos Mejia-Chew, Peggy L Carver, Sasinuch Rutjanawech, Luis F Aranha Camargo, Ruan Fernandes, Sara Belga, Shay-Anne Daniels, Nicolas J Müller, Sara Burkhard, Nicole M Theodoropoulos, Douwe F Postma, Pleun J van Duijn, María Carmen Fariñas, Claudia González-Rico, Jonathan Hand, Adam Lowe, Marta Bodro, Elisa Vanino, Ana Fernández Cruz, Antonio Ramos, Mateja Jankovic Makek, Ribal Bou Mjahed, Oriol Manuel, Nassim Kamar, Antonia Calvo-Cano, Laura Rueda Carrasco, Patricia Muñoz, Sara Rodríguez, Sandra Pérez-Recio, Núria Sabé, Regino Rodríguez Álvarez, José Tiago Silva, Alessandra Mularoni, Elisa Vidal, Juana Alonso-Titos, Teresa del Rosal, Annika Y Classen, Charles W Goss, Mansi Agarwal, and Francisco López-Medrano
Subjects: Microbiology (medical), Infectious Diseases
Abstract: Background Risk factors for nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) infections after solid organ transplant (SOT) are not well characterized. Here we aimed to describe these factors. Methods Retrospective, multinational, 1:2 matched case-control study that included SOT recipients ≥12 years old diagnosed with NTM infection from 1 January 2008 to 31 December 2018. Controls were matched on transplanted organ, NTM treatment center, and post-transplant survival greater than or equal to the time to NTM diagnosis. Logistic regression on matched pairs was used to assess associations between risk factors and NTM infections. Results Analyses included 85 cases and 169 controls (59% male, 88% White, median age at time of SOT of 54 years [interquartile range {IQR} 40–62]). NTM infection occurred in kidney (42%), lung (35%), heart and liver (11% each), and pancreas transplant recipients (1%). Median time from transplant to infection was 21.6 months (IQR 5.3–55.2). Most underlying comorbidities were evenly distributed between groups; however, cases were older at the time of NTM diagnosis, more frequently on systemic corticosteroids and had a lower lymphocyte count (all P < .05). In the multivariable model, older age at transplant (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] 1.04; 95 confidence interval [CI], 1.01–1.07), hospital admission within 90 days (aOR, 3.14; 95% CI, 1.41–6.98), receipt of antifungals (aOR, 5.35; 95% CI, 1.7–16.91), and lymphocyte-specific antibodies (aOR, 7.73; 95% CI, 1.07–56.14), were associated with NTM infection. Conclusions Risk of NTM infection in SOT recipients was associated with older age at SOT, prior hospital admission, receipt of antifungals or lymphocyte-specific antibodies. NTM infection should be considered in SOT patients with these risk factors.
Published: 2023

10. Non-Nosocomial Healthcare-Associated Infective Endocarditis: A Distinct Entity? Data from the Games Series (2008-2021)

Author: David Alonso-Menchén, Emilio Bouza, Maricela Valerio, Arístides de Alarcón, Encarnación Gutiérrez-Carretero, Jose M. Miro, Miguel Ángel Goenaga-Sánchez, Antonio Plata-Ciézar, Claudia González-Rico, Luis Eduardo López-Cortés, M. Ángeles Rodríguez-Esteban, Francisco Javier Martínez-Marcos, Patricia Muñoz, and GAMES Investigators
Published: 2023
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11. 1262. Dolutegravir Plus 3TC In Antiretroviral Experienced Adults: Immunovirological Outcomes In a Multicenter Retrospective Cohort In Spain

Author: Luis Buzón-Martín, Carlos Dueñas Gutierrez, José Antonio Iribarren, Ignacio de los Santos, Alberto Diaz-De Santiago, Miguel Ángel Morán-Rodríguez, Guillermo Pousada, Claudia González Rico, Estela Moreno García, Eva Ferreira, Alicia Iglesias Gómez, Cristina Martín gómez, Julia gómez Barquero, Miguel V Egido Murciano, and Jesús Troya
Subjects: Infectious Diseases, Oncology
Abstract: Background Dolutegravir-based dual therapies for treating people living with HIV (PLHIV) are strategies strongly recommended in several practice guidelines. The safety and efficacy combination of Dolutegravir (DTG) plus 3TC as a switching strategy in virologically suppressed patients was demonstrated in the TANGO study. Wide multicenter real life data supporting this treatment is needed. The aim of the current study was to describe the efficacy in terms of immunovirological outcomes in patients treated with this antiretroviral combination. Methods From November 1st 2020 to August 1st 2021, data from 1062 PLHIV collected from 13 Spanish institutions were recorded in a multicenter, retrospective study; After discarding cases in which relevant variables were missing, finally 694 cases underwent statistical analysis. Inclusion criteria were age >18 years, and to receive treatment with DTG/3TC as a switch strategy. Immunovirological impact of this strategy ( CD4+, CD8+ and CD4+/CD8+ cell count, as well as HIV plasma viral load through weeks 24, 48 and 96 of follow up) was evaluated using multivariable mixed models where the individual was considered as a random effect. Sex and age were added as demographic covariables. Results 78% of patients were men, 16% had been previously diagnosed of AIDS. Mean age was 48 years old. Mean CD4 T cell count nadir was 300 cell/ml (160-480). We found a significant increase in CD4+ counts at 24, 48 and 96 weeks after switching drug strategy. We also detected a small increase in the CD4+/CD8+ count rate at 48 and 96 weeks. No significant change was found in CD8+ count. No differences were found on behalf of sex, between backbone drugs (73% switched from a TDF/FTC backbone and 26.9% from ABC/3TC) or amongst the different third agents used (62% switched from integrase inhibitors). We identified a strong and negative effect of having AIDS in the CD4+ count. However, this effect did not interact with the effect of switching drug strategies. CD4, CD8 and CD4/CD8 after switch at 24, 48 and 96w Log OR Conclusion PLHIV who, being virologically suppressed, switched to dual therapy based on DTG/3TC, experienced a statistically significant increase of CD4+ T cell count at weeks 24, 48 and 96, as well as an increase in CD4/CD8 T cell ratio, as well as high efficacy in terms of viral replication suppression, independently of the stage of HIV infection. Disclosures Luis Buzón-Martín, MD, ViiV, GILEAD, Jannsen, MSD: Lecture fees Carlos Dueñas Gutierrez, MD, ViIV, GILEAD, Jannsen, MSD: Lecture fees Jesús Troya, Staff, ViiV, GILEAD, Jannsen, MSD: Lecture fees.
Published: 2022
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12. Evaluation of endothelial function and subclinical atherosclerosis in patients with HIV infection

Author: M.C. Fariñas, Manuel Gutiérrez-Cuadra, José Antonio Parra, Vicente González-Quintanilla, E. Palacios, Concepción Fariñas-Álvarez, Agustín Oterino, F. Arnaiz de las Revillas, Claudia González-Rico, Carlos Armiñanzas, and Universidad de Cantabria
Subjects: Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Science, Cardiology, Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), HIV Infections, medicine.disease_cause, Gastroenterology, Article, Breath Holding, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, In patient, Lymphocytes, Progenitor cell, Endothelial dysfunction, Prospective cohort study, Aged, Endothelial Progenitor Cells, Multidisciplinary, business.industry, Middle Aged, Atherosclerosis, medicine.disease, Coronary Vessels, Vasodilation, Risk factors, Intima-media thickness, Subclinical atherosclerosis, Medicine, Female, Endothelium, Vascular, Infection, business, Viral load
Abstract: The aim of this study was to analyse the association between human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) related clinical and analytical parameters and the presence of subclinical atherosclerosis as well as endothelial dysfunction. This was a prospective cohort study of HIV-positive patients who underwent intima media thickness (IMT) determination and coronary artery calcium scoring to determine subclinical atherosclerosis. To detect endothelial dysfunction, the breath holding index, flow-mediated dilation and the concentration of endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) were measured. Patients with an IMT ≥ 0.9 mm had an average of 559.3 ± 283.34 CD4/μl, and those with an IMT 4 ± 5 × 104 copies/ml vs 23.4 × 104 ± 19 × 104 copies/ml (p = 0.02)). The number of early EPCs in patients with a CD4 nadir
Published: 2021

13. Oral decontamination with colistin plus neomycin in solid organ transplant recipients colonized by multidrug-resistant Enterobacterales: a multicentre, randomized, controlled, open-label, parallel-group clinical trial

Author: Laura Linares, Julián Torre-Cisneros, Fernando Chaves, Antonio Cuadrado, Javier Nieto, María José Blanco, Irene Gracia-Ahufinger, José María Aguadov, Maitane Aranzamendi, Javier Graus, María Olmedo, Elena Resino, Teresa Vicente-Rangel, Marina Machado, Claudia González-Rico, Virginia Flor, Emilio Fábrega, Rosa Escudero-Sánchez, Ana M. Sánchez-Díaz, Ana Fernández, Miquel Navasa, Jorge Calvo, Fernando Casafont-Morencos, Francesc Marco, Asunción Moreno, Jesús Fortún, Pilar Martin Dávil, Francisco Arnaiz de las Revillas, María Luisa Rodríguez Ferrero, Miguel Montejo, María Carmen Fariñas, Marta Fernández-Martínez, Patricia Ruiz Garbajosa, Marta Bodro, Concepción Fariñas-Álvarez, Aitziber Illaro, Emilio Rodrigo, Fernando Rodríguez, Aurora Páez Vega, Juan Carlos Ruiz San Millán, Patricia Muñoz, Caroline Agnelli Bento, Adolfo Martínez, Luis Martínez-Martínez, Maricela Valerio, Frederic Cofan, Cristina Rincón Sanz, Carlos Armiñanzas, Luis Alberto Sánchez Cámara, Mónica Gozalo, and Universidad de Cantabria
Subjects: Male, 0301 basic medicine, Microbiology (medical), medicine.medical_specialty, Nausea, 030106 microbiology, Administration, Oral, Infections, law.invention, 03 medical and health sciences, Enterobacterales, 0302 clinical medicine, Solid organ transplantation, Enterobacteriaceae, Randomized controlled trial, law, Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, 030212 general & internal medicine, Adverse effect, Rectal colonization, Multiresistance, Aged, Colistin, business.industry, Enterobacteriaceae Infections, Rectum, Neomycin, Organ Transplantation, General Medicine, Middle Aged, Rash, Transplant Recipients, Anti-Bacterial Agents, Transplantation, Infectious Diseases, Relative risk, Carrier State, Vomiting, Drug Therapy, Combination, Female, medicine.symptom, business, medicine.drug
Abstract: Objectives To evaluate the efficacy of oral colistin-neomycin in preventing multidrug-resistant Enterobacterales (MDR-E) infections in solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients. Methods Multicentre, open-label, parallel-group, controlled trial with balanced (1:1) randomization in five transplant units. SOT recipients were screened for MDR-E intestinal colonization (extended-spectrum β-lactamase or carbapenemase producing) before transplantation and +7 and + 14 days after transplantation and assigned 1:1 to receive treatment with colistin sulfate plus neomycin sulfate for 14 days (decolonization treatment (DT) group) or no treatment (no decolonization treatment (NDT) group). The primary outcome was diagnosis of an MDR-E infection. Safety outcomes were appearance of adverse effects, mainly diarrhoea, rash, nausea and vomiting. Patients were monitored weekly until 30 days after treatment. Intention-to-treat analysis was performed. Results MDR-E rectal colonization was assessed in 768 SOT recipients; 105 colonized patients were included in the clinical trial, 53 receiving DT and 52 NDT. No significant decrease in the risk of infection by MDR-E was observed in the DT group (9.4%, 5/53) compared to the NDT group (13.5%, 7/52) (relative risk 0.70; 95% confidence interval 0.24–2.08; p 0.517). Four patients (5.6%), three (5.6%) in the DT group and one (1.9%) in the NDT group, developed colistin resistance. Twelve patients (22.7%) in the DT group had diarrhoea, eight related to treatment (15.0%); one patient (1.8%) developed skin rash and another (1.8%) nausea and vomiting. Two patients (3.8%) in the NDT group developed diarrhoea. Conclusions DT does not reduce MDR-E infections in SOT. Colistin resistance and adverse effects such as diarrhoea are a potential issue that must be taken seriously.
Published: 2021
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14. Aspergillus endocarditis in the recent years, report of cases of a multicentric national cohort and literature review

Author: Víctor José González Ramallo, Marta Hernández-Meneses, Claudia González-Rico, Maria Olmedo Samperio, Marta Camici, Mariona Xercavins, Carmen Hidalgo Tenorio, Eduard Quintana, Maricela Valerio, Guillermo Cuervo, Marina Machado, Jesus Vicente Guinea Ortega, Pilar Martín-Dávila, Ana Fernández-Cruz, Sofia De la Villa, David Nicolás, Dolores Sousa, Guillermo Ojeda Burgos, Natividad Benito, Fernando Dominguez, Jose A. Lepe, Jordi Carratala, Jose Lopez-Haldon, and Alicia Galar
Subjects: Male, infectious endocarditis, Antifungal Agents, Endocarditis, Aspergillus fumigatus, Dermatology, General Medicine, Middle Aged, Aspergillus, antifungal agents, Aspergillosis, immunodeficiency, Humans, Infectious Diseases
Abstract: (1) To describe the incidence, clinical characteristics, treatment and outcome of Aspergillus Endocarditis (AE) in a nationwide multicentric cohort (GAMES). (2) To compare the AE cases of the GAMES cohort, with the AE cases reported in the literature since 2010. (3) To identify variables related to mortality.We recruited 10 AE cases included in the GAMES cohort (January 2008-December 2018) and 51 cases from the literature published from January 2010 to July 2019.4528 patients with infectious endocarditis (IE) were included in the GAMES cohort, of them 10 (0.2%) were AE. After comparing our 10 cases with the 51 of the literature, no differences were found. Analysing the 61 AE cases together, 55.7% were male, median age 45 years. Their main underlying conditions were as follows: prosthetic valve surgery (34.4%) and solid organ transplant (SOT) (19.7%). Mainly affecting mitral (36.1%) and aortic valve (29.5%). Main isolated species were as follows: Aspergillus fumigatus (47.5%) and Aspergillus flavus (24.6%). Embolisms occurred in 54%. Patients were treated with antifungals (90.2%), heart surgery (85.2%) or both (78.7%). Overall, 52.5% died. A greater mortality was observed in immunosuppressed patients (59.4% vs. 24.1%, OR = 4.09, 95%CI = 1.26-13.19, p = .02), and lower mortality was associated with undergoing cardiac surgery plus azole therapy (28.1% vs. 65.5%, OR = 0.22, 95%CI = 0.07-0.72, p = .01).AE accounts for 0.2% of all IE episodes of a national multicentric cohort, mainly affecting patients with previous valvular surgery or SOT recipients. Mortality remains high especially in immunosuppressed hosts and azole-based treatment combined with surgical resection are related to a better outcome.
Published: 2022

15. BCG vaccination to reduce the impact of COVID-19 in healthcare workers: Protocol for a randomised controlled trial (BRACE trial)

Author: Donna Legge, Rachel Dixon, Amanda Gwee, Nigel Curtis, Fiona McDonald, John L Campbell, Nick Evans, Peter Richmond, Joyce Chan, John Carlin, Anthony Byrne, Helen Thomson, Richard Hall, Jesús Rodríguez-Baño, Robert Harrison, Kirsten P Perrett, Michaela Lucas, Melissa O’Donnell, Justin Waring, Andrew Davidson, Heidi Hutton, Laure F Pittet, Jan Kluytmans, Ana Maria Barriocanal, Emily Fletcher, James Moore, John Campbell, Kate Sidaway-Lee, Alex Harding, Katherine Lee, David Paterson, Juliana Silva, Denise Faustman, Nicole L Messina, Kaya Gardiner, Frank Shann, Veronica Abruzzo, Susie Germano, Laurens Manning, Justin Beardsley, Jason Bell, Francesca Orsini, Jeremy Anderson, Kim Mulholland, Andrew Dunn, Jeffrey Post, Catherine Flynn, Clare Seamark, Andrew Steer, Sigrid Pitkin, Emma Watts, Carlos Garcia, Daniel Santos, Christina Guo, Antoni Rosell, Sarah Fowler, Richard Malley, Nicholas J Wood, Wim Boersma, Kanta Subbarao, Karen Jones, Chris Richards, Nigel Crawford, Adilia Warris, Mary Corbett, Pamela Palasanthiran, Cristina Pérez, Esther Calbo, Jane Jones, Wendy Norton, Luke Stevens, Craig F Munns, Bridget Knight, Thilanka Morawakage, Josune Goikoetxea, Teresa Rodrigues, Nienke Roescher, David Seamark, Jorge Rocha, Stephanie Reynolds, Lynne Quinn, Harry Tripp, Tobias R Kollmann, Marc Bonten, Irene Latorre, Maria Esteve, Kate Hamilton, Cristina Prat-Aymerich, NICK WOOD, RAMÓN CASTRO, Ruth Warren, Christopher Martin, Diane Dawson, Lorrie Symons, Ann Krastev, Ellie McDonald, Claudia González Rico, Ester Valls, Julio Croda, Tobias Kollmann, Victoria Gordon, Marcus Vinícius Guimarães Lacerda, Jennifer Kent, Samantha Bannister, Margareth Dalcolmo, Sonja Elia, Casey Goodall, Tenaya Jamieson, Bruno Jardim, David J Lynn, Cristina Prat Aymerich, Eva Sudbury, Paola Villanueva, Katherine Lieschke, Carolinne Abreu, Lynne Addlem, Sophie Agius, Adelita Agripina Barbosa, Ahmed Alamrousi, Ayla Alcoforado Santos, Yasmeen Al-Hindawi, Samyra Almeida Da Silveira, Lais Alves Cruz, Christina Anthony, Andrea Antonia Pereira, Francisco Arnaiz Almajano, Annabelle Arnold, Beth Arrowsmith, Kristy Azzopardi, Cristina Badia Marti, Twinkle Bahaduri, Sarah Barney, Lydia Barrera, Anabel Barriocanal, Dayanne Barros, Adam Bartlett, Lilian Muranaka, Therese Baulman, Morgan Bealing, Ana Belen Gutierrez, Vicki Bennett-Wood, Nikki Bergant, Fabiane Bianca Barbosa, Wouter Bijllaardt, Patricia Bimboese, Camila Bitencourt Andrade, Kitty Blauwendraat, Pilar Bohedo Garcia, Rhian Bonnici, Anne Boon, Anna Bourke, Kirsty Bowes, Larissa Brasil, Clare Brophy, Sandy Buchanan, Jess Bucholc, Alison Burns, Emma Burrell, Natalia Bustos, Bridie Byrne, Jorge Calvo Montes, Beatriz Camesella, Atsegiñe Cangas, Maria Carmen Roque, Roberta Carolina Diogo, Estela Carvalho, Irma Casas, Erika Castro, Helen Catterick, Rodrigo Cezar Escobar, Jo Cheah, Thilakavathi Chengodu, Marianna Ciaverella, Sharon Clark, Marie-Alix Clement Espindola, Annie Cobbledick, Clinton Colaco, Simone Collopy, Patricia Comella, Gabriela Correa Castro, Erlane Costa, Raquel Coya, Alda Cruz, Jac Cushnahan, Anna Czajko, Renato da Silva, Bouchra Daitiri, Karen Dalton, Aiken Dao, Phoebe Dawe, Miriam Jesus Costa, Karina De La Cruz, Almudena de Serna, Fabiani de Morais Batista, Adriely de Oliveira, Rocio del Rey Morillo, Maria Desylva, Helga Dijkstra, Maria Dolores Lopez, Jose Dominguez, Angel Dominguez Castellano, Glauce Dos Santos, Joyce Santos Lencina, Débora Santos Silva, Mark Douglas, Ross Dunn, Jemma Dunnill, Harriet Edmund, Nat Eiffler, Hannah Elborough, Olivia Elkington, Michelle England, Wellyngthon Espindola Ayala, Krist Ewe, María Carmen Álvarez, Kieran Fahey, Jill Fairweather, Erica Fernandes Silva, Monique Fernandez, Galina Fidler, P.M.G. Filius, Carolyn Finucane, Stephanie Firth, Lorraine Flynn, Liam Fouracre, Thamires Freitas, Ana Carolina Furtado, Maria Gabriela Oliveira, Anna Gabriela Santos, Leandro Galdino Gonçalves, Laura Galletta, Larissa Gama, Dinusha Gamage, Radhika Ganpat, Mariana Garcia, Mariana Garcia Croda, Evangeline Gardiner, Grace Gell, Aline Gerhardt Oliveira, Camille Gibson, Alison Gifford, Teresa Giménez Poderos, Ann Ginsberg, Jet Gisolf, Bojana Gladanac, Penny Glenn, Vanessa Godinho, Mayara Góes Santos, Telma Goldenberg, Adriano Gomes, Susana Gonzalez Marcos, Frances Greven, Ana Greyce Capella, David Gutierrez Campos, Manuel Gutierrez Cuadra, Lydia Hall, Matthew Hannan, Houda Harbech, Neil Haker, Robert Jan Hassing, Thaynara Haynara Rosa, Zaheerah Haywood, Nadine Henare, Paulo Henrique Andrade, Susan Herrmann, Erin Hill, Sam Hilton, Danique Huijbens, Axel Janssen, Tyane Jardim, Lance Jarvis, Narelle Jenkins, Jan Jones, Leticia Jorge, Maria Jose Vilegas, Sri Joshi, Rosemary Joyce, Joel Junior, Rama Kandasamy, Anushka Karunanayake, Hana Karuppasamy, Tom Keeble, Paul Kloeg, Tony Korman, Nathan La, Marcus Lacerda, Alicia Lacoma, Renier Lagunday, Debbie Lalich, Erin Latkovic, Paulo Leandro Junior, Toos Lemmers, Titia Leurink, Kee Lim, Gemma Lockhart, Cíntia Lopes Bogéa, Karla Lopes Santos, Reyes Lopez Marques, Maria Luciana Freitas, Norine Ma, Sam Macalister, Cristiane Machado, Matheus Machado Ramos, Francesca Machingaifa, Ivan Maia, Bernardo Maia, Sarah Manton, Jose Manuel Carrerero, Cíntia Maria Alves, Rosa Maria Pereira, Bianca Maria Arruda, Adriana Marins, Katya Martinez Almeida, Wayne Mather, Megan Mathers, Fábio Mauricio Gomes, Mariana Mayumi Tadokoro, Nadia Mazarakis, Kelry Mazurega, Sonia McAlister, Amy McAndrews, Rebecca McElroy, Nick McPhate, Lee Mead, Andrea Meehan, Bob Meek, Rosangela Melo, Guillermo Mena, Daniella Mesquita, Nicole Messina, Isabella Mezzetti, Hugo Miguel Vieira, Skye Miller, Kirsten Mitchell, Marcus Mitchell, Jesutofunmi Mojeed, Kitty Molenaar, Gemma Molina, Barbara Molina, Lisa Montgomery, Cecilia Moore, Simone Moorlag, Julie Moss, Will Moyle, Craig Munns, Elizandra Nascimento, Nicolas Navarrette, Mihai Netea, Juliana Neves, Georgina Newman, Belle Ngien, Jill Nguyen, Khanh Nguyen, Fran Noonan, Jess O’Bryan, Abby O’Connell, Sasha Odoi, Liz O’Donnell, Roberto Oliveira, Marilena Oliveira, Thais Oliveira, Ingrid Oliveira, Nadia Olivier, Ligia Olivio, Benjamin Ong, Jaslyn Ong, Joanne Ong, Jakob Onysk, Isabelle Ooi, Frances Oppedisano, Belinda Ortika, Orygen Group, Arthur Otsuka, Rosie Owens, Rayssa Paes, Virginia Palomo Jiménez, Girlene Pandine, Kimberley Parkin, Alvaro Pascual Hernandez, Nienke Paternotte, Ana Paula Souza, Lisa Pelayo, Casey Pell, Sille Pelser, Handerson Pereira, Gabrielle Pereira, Glady Perez, Tomás Perez Porcuna, Susan Perlen, Kirsten Perrett, Amandine Philippart Floy, Laure Pittet, R.C. Pon, Ines Portillo Calderón, Catherine Power, Christiane Prado, Endriaen Prajitno, Lieke Preijers, Marco Puga, Evelyn Queiroz, Ashleigh Rak, Leticia Ramires Figueiredo, Encarnacion Ramirez de Arellano, Pedro Ramos, Karla Regina Oliveira, Jack Ren, Claudinalva Ribeiro Santos, Holly Richmond, Ana Rita Souza, Laleyska Rodrigues, Bebeto Rodrigues, Iara Rodrigues Fernandes, Sally Rogers, Anke Rol, Jannie Romme, Maria Roser Font, Sonia Sallent, Vanderson Sampaio, Nuria Sanchez, Blanca Sanchez, Tilza Santos, Ariandra Sartim, Amber Sastry, Alice Sawka, Nikki Schultz, Engelien Septer-Bijleveld, Raquel Serrano, Ketaki Sharma, Margaret Shave, Lisa Shen, Adrian Siles Baena, Rafaela Silva, Emanuelle Silva, Mariana Simão, Ronita Singh, Marilda Siqueira, Marciléia Soares Chaves, Thijs Sondag, Enoshini Sooriyarachchi, Antonny Sousa, Leena Spry, Sarah Statton, Dyenyffer Stéffany Santos, Katrina Sterling, Leah Steve, Carolyn Stewart, Lisa Stiglmayer, Lida Stooper, Josephine Studham, Astrid Suiker, Esther Taks, Niki Tan, Bruna Tayara Meireles, Menno te Riele, Jaap ten Oever, Guilherme Teodoro Lima, Rob ter Heine, Jhenyfer Thalyta Angelo, Ryan Toh, Alexandre Trindade, Enriqueta Tristán, Darren Troeman, Alexandra Truelove, Daniel Tsuha, Marlot Uffing, Fernando Val, Olga Valero, Chantal van Ven, Leo Van Heuvel, Sigrid van Veen, Marije van Waal, J.H. van Leusen, Linda van Mook, H. van Onzenoort, Marjoleine van Opdorp, Miranda van Rijen, Nicolette van Sluis, Adria Vasconcelos, Noelia Vega, Sunitha Velagapudi, Louise Vennells, Tamsin Venton, Harald Verheij, P.M. Verhoeven, Caroliny Veron Ramos, Paulo Victor Silva, Sandra Vidal, Patricia Vieira, Matheus Vieira Oliveira, Rosario Vigo Ortega, Raquel Villar, Amanda Vlahos, Ushma Wadia, Kate Wall, Rachael Wallace, Michelle Wearing-Smith, Daniel Webber-Rookes, Jamie Wedderburn, Ashleigh Wee-Hee, Jia Wei Teo, Bethany Whale, Phoebe Williams, Beatrijs Wolters, Ivy Xie, Angela Younes, Felipe Zampieri Batista, Carmen Zhou, and Vivian Zwart
Subjects: medicine.medical_specialty, Health Personnel, infectious diseases, law.invention, immunology, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Randomized controlled trial, law, Medicine, Humans, Multicenter Studies as Topic, 030212 general & internal medicine, 030304 developmental biology, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, 0303 health sciences, business.industry, SARS-CoV-2, Incidence (epidemiology), microbiology, Vaccination, Respiratory infection, COVID-19, General Medicine, 3. Good health, virology, Coronavirus, Clinical research, Infectious Diseases, Treatment Outcome, Immunization, Emergency medicine, Absenteeism, BCG Vaccine, business, BCG vaccine
Abstract: IntroductionBCG vaccination modulates immune responses to unrelated pathogens. This off-target effect could reduce the impact of emerging pathogens. As a readily available, inexpensive intervention that has a well-established safety profile, BCG is a good candidate for protecting healthcare workers (HCWs) and other vulnerable groups against COVID-19.Methods and analysisThis international multicentre phase III randomised controlled trial aims to determine if BCG vaccination reduces the incidence of symptomatic and severe COVID-19 at 6 months (co-primary outcomes) compared with no BCG vaccination. We plan to randomise 10 078 HCWs from Australia, The Netherlands, Spain, the UK and Brazil in a 1:1 ratio to BCG vaccination or no BCG (control group). The participants will be followed for 1 year with questionnaires and collection of blood samples. For any episode of illness, clinical details will be collected daily, and the participant will be tested for SARS-CoV-2 infection. The secondary objectives are to determine if BCG vaccination reduces the rate, incidence, and severity of any febrile or respiratory illness (including SARS-CoV-2), as well as work absenteeism. The safety of BCG vaccination in HCWs will also be evaluated. Immunological analyses will assess changes in the immune system following vaccination, and identify factors associated with susceptibility to or protection against SARS-CoV-2 and other infections.Ethics and disseminationEthical and governance approval will be obtained from participating sites. Results will be published in peer-reviewed open-access journals. The final cleaned and locked database will be deposited in a data sharing repository archiving system.Trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov NCT04327206
Published: 2021

16. Humoral/Cellular Immune Discordance in Stem Cell Donors: Impact on Cytomegalovirus-Specific Immune Reconstitution after Related Hematopoietic Transplantation

Author: Jorge Valle-Arroyo, Aurora Páez-Vega, Raquel Fernández-Moreno, Javier López-Jiménez, Alejandro Luna, Rafael Duarte, Francisco Serrano-Martínez, Sara Villar, Mirian Fernández-Alonso, Gabriel Reina, Claudia González-Rico, María C Fariñas, Rafael Rojas, Concha Herrera, Carmen Martín, Estefanía García-Torres, Julián Torre-Cisneros, and Sara Cantisán
Subjects: Transplantation, Immune Reconstitution, Cytomegalovirus Infections, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, Cytomegalovirus, Humans, Molecular Medicine, Immunology and Allergy, Cell Biology, Hematology
Abstract: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) reactivation is an important cause of complications after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Discrepancies between serologic and cellular CMV-specific immune response have been reported. This study evaluated the impact of lack of CMV-specific CD8
Published: 2022
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17. Mitral valve repair in infective endocarditis is not inferior to valve replacement: results from a Spanish nationwide prospective registry

Author: Javier Bermejo, Víctor José González Ramallo, Marta Hernández-Meneses, Adrián Téllez, Víctor Asensi Álvarez, Claudia González-Rico, Vicente Climent, Luis Eduardo López-Cortés, José David Rodrigo Carbonero, Castelo-Corral Laura, Francesc Marco, Eduard Quintana, Leyre López-Soria, Pere Pericas, Pilar Martín-Dávila, Ana Fernández-Cruz, Alejandro Martin-Quiros, José Ignacio Aramendi, José A. Oteo, Roberto Blanco Mata, David Nicolás, Marina Cueto-López, Guillermo Ojeda Burgos, Marta Bodro, Esperanza Merino de Lucas, Natividad Benito, Fernando Dominguez, Jose A. Lepe, Patricia Carmen Muñoz García, Juan M Pericas, Daniel Pereda, Javier De La Torre-Lima, Omar A Araji-Tiliani, Antonia Delgado-Montero, and Asunción Moreno Camacho
Subjects: Male, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, medicine.medical_specialty, medicine.medical_treatment, Heart Valve Diseases, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Valve replacement, Recurrence, Mitral valve, medicine, Humans, Endocarditis, Prospective Studies, Registries, Aged, Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation, Mitral valve repair, business.industry, Mitral valve replacement, EuroSCORE, General Medicine, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Surgery, Survival Rate, medicine.anatomical_structure, 030228 respiratory system, Spain, Cardiothoracic surgery, Infective endocarditis, Mitral Valve, Female, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business, Follow-Up Studies
Abstract: Introduction Infective endocarditis (IE) still carries high morbidity and mortality and frequently requires surgery. The benefit of mitral valve repair (MVr) in the setting of IE is yet to be proven. The goal of this study was to assess the results of MVr in patients with IE after a minimum follow-up of 1 year. Methods This study is based on a Spanish nationwide prospective registry that included patients operated on for native mitral valve IE. The collaborating Institutions pooled their pre-, peri-, and postoperative data into the database of the GAMES group [Grupo de Apoyo al Manejo de la EndocarditiS (Group for support and management of infective endocarditis)]. Results Data from 27 hospitals were recorded and 3524 cases of active IE identified between 2008 and 2016. There were 1513 cases of mitral IE, of which 898 involved native valves. Of these, 437 patients underwent surgical treatment, and 369 completed the 1-year follow-up. The valve was repaired in 68 cases (18.4%). Preoperative groups were comparable (EuroSCORE MVr 7.7 vs MVR 8.0; p = ns). Mortality in the repair group was inferior to that in the replacement group (16.2% vs 27.2%, p = 0.058). At 1 year, mortality remained higher in the replacement group: 3.7% vs 2.9%. Relapse of the infection was slightly more frequent in the repair group (7.1% vs 3.7%; p = ns), although this did not lead to higher rates of reintervention (MVr/MVR: 2.9% vs 4.9%). Conclusion MVr is an attractive option for specific patients with IE and does not seem to negatively impact on relapses.
Published: 2019
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18. Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Treatment for Infective Endocarditis: A Prospective Cohort Study From the GAMES Cohort

Author: Víctor José González Ramallo, Marta Hernández-Meneses, Víctor Asensi Álvarez, Claudia González-Rico, Vicente Climent, José David Rodrigo Carbonero, Francesc Marco, Eduard Quintana, Leyre López-Soria, Pere Pericas, Pilar Martín-Dávila, Ana Fernández-Cruz, Alejandro Martin-Quiros, Lara García-Álvarez, José A. Oteo, Marina Cueto-López, Guillermo Ojeda Burgos, Marta Bodro, Esperanza Merino de Lucas, EDUARDO MORENO ESCOBAR, Natividad Benito, Fernando Dominguez, Jose A. Lepe, Patricia Carmen Muñoz García, Juan M Pericas, Daniel Pereda, Javier De La Torre-Lima, Jonathan Fernández-Suárez, Omar A Araji-Tiliani, Antonia Delgado-Montero, Fernando Fernández Sánchez, Asunción Moreno Camacho, Jose Lopez-Menendez, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, European Commission, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, and Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer
Subjects: Male, 0301 basic medicine, Microbiology (medical), 030106 microbiology, Outcomes, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Bacterial endocarditis, Outpatients, Humans, Medicine, Infusions, Parenteral, Prospective Studies, 030212 general & internal medicine, Aged, Retrospective Studies, business.industry, Parenteral antibiotic, Endocarditis, Bacterial, Middle Aged, Hospitals, Anti-Bacterial Agents, Hospitalization, Treatment Outcome, Outpatient parenteral antibiotic treatment, Infectious Diseases, Cardiac Surgery procedures, Spain, Female, Infective endocarditis, business, Humanities, Readmission
Abstract: For the Spanish Collaboration on Endocarditis-Grupo de Apoyo al Manejo de la Endocarditis Infecciosa en España (GAMES) investigators: Hospital Costa del Sol, Marbella: Fernando Fernández Sánchez, Mariam Noureddine, Gabriel Rosas, Javier de la Torre Lima. Hospital Universitario de Cruces, (Bilbao): Roberto Blanco, María Victoria Boado, Marta Campaña Lázaro, Alejandro Crespo, Josune Goikoetxea, José Ramón Iruretagoyena, Josu Irurzun Zuazabal, Leire López-Soria, Miguel Montejo, Javier Nieto, David Rodrigo, Regino Rodríguez, Yolanda Vitoria, Roberto Voces. Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria, Málaga: María (Mª) Victoria García López, Radka Ivanova Georgieva, Guillermo Ojeda, Isabel Rodríguez Bailón, Josefa Ruiz Morales. Hospital Universitario Donostia-Policlínica Gipuzkoa, San Sebastián: Ana María Cuende, Tomás Echeverría, Ana Fuerte, Eduardo Gaminde, Miguel Ángel Goenaga, Pedro Idígoras, José Antonio Iribarren, Alberto Izaguirre Yarza, Xabier Kortajarena Urkola, Carlos Reviejo. Hospital General Universitario de Alicante, Alicante: Rafael Carrasco, Vicente Climent, Patricio Llamas, Esperanza Merino, Joaquín Plazas, Sergio Reus. Complejo Hospitalario Universitario A Coruña, A Coruña: Nemesio Álvarez, José María Bravo-Ferrer, Laura Castelo, José Cuenca, Pedro Llinares, Enrique Miguez Rey, María Rodríguez Mayo, Efrén Sánchez, Dolores Sousa Regueiro. Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Huelva, Huelva: Francisco Javier Martínez. Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Canarias: Mª del Mar Alonso, Beatriz Castro, Dácil García Rosado, Mª del Carmen Durán, Mª Antonia Miguel Gómez, Juan Lacalzada, Ibrahim Nassar. Hospital Regional Universitario de Málaga, Málaga: Antonio Plata Ciezar, José Mª Reguera Iglesias. Hospital Universitario Central Asturias, Oviedo: Víctor Asensi Álvarez, Carlos Costas, Jesús de la Hera, Jonnathan Fernández Suárez, Lisardo Iglesias Fraile, Víctor León Arguero, José López Menéndez, Pilar Mencia Bajo, Carlos Morales, Alfonso Moreno Torrico, Carmen Palomo, Begoña Paya Martínez, Ángeles Rodríguez Esteban, Raquel Rodríguez García, Mauricio Telenti Asensio. Hospital Clínic-IDIBAPS, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona: Manuel Almela, Juan Ambrosioni, Manuel Azqueta, Mercè Brunet, Marta Bodro, Ramón Cartañá, Carlos Falces, Guillermina Fita, David Fuster, Cristina García de la Mària, Laura García-Valls, Marta Hernández-Meneses, Jaume Llopis Pérez, Francesc Marco, José M. Miró, Asunción Moreno, David Nicolás, Salvador Ninot, Eduardo Quintana, Carlos Paré, Daniel Pereda, Juan M. Pericás, José L. Pomar, José Ramírez, Irene Rovira, Elena Sandoval, Marta Sala, Marta Sitges, Dolors Soy, Adrián Téllez, José M. Tolosana, Bárbara Vidal, Jordi Vila. Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid: Iván Adán, Javier Bermejo, Emilio Bouza, Daniel Celemín, Gregorio Cuerpo Caballero, Antonia Delgado Montero, Ana Fernández Cruz, Ana García Mansilla, Mª Eugenia García Leoni, Víctor González Ramallo, Martha Kestler Hernández, Amaia Mari Hualde, Mercedes Marín, Manuel Martínez-Sellés, Mª Cruz Menárguez, Patricia Muñoz, Cristina Rincón, Hugo Rodríguez-Abella, Marta Rodríguez-Créixems, Blanca Pinilla, Ángel Pinto, Maricela Valerio, Pilar Vázquez, Eduardo Verde Moreno. Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid: Isabel Antorrena, Belén Loeches, Alejandro Martín Quirós, Mar Moreno, Ulises Ramírez, Verónica Rial Bastón, María Romero, Araceli Saldaña. Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander: Jesús Agüero Balbín, Carlos Armiñanzas Castillo, Ana Arnaiz, Francisco Arnaiz de las Revillas, Manuel Cobo Belaustegui, María Carmen Fariñas, Concepción Fariñas-Álvarez, Rubén Gómez Izquierdo, Iván García, Claudia González Rico, Manuel Gutiérrez-Cuadra, José Gutiérrez Díez, Marcos Pajarón, José Antonio Parra, Ramón Teira, Jesús Zarauza. Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro, Madrid: Fernando Domínguez, Pablo García Pavía, Jesús González, Beatriz Orden, Antonio Ramos. Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, (Madrid): Tomasa Centella, José Manuel Hermida, José Luis Moya, Pilar Martín-Dávila, Enrique Navas, Enrique Oliva, Alejandro del Río, Jorge Rodríguez-Roda Stuart, Soledad Ruiz Rodríguez. Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves, Granada: Carmen Hidalgo Tenorio. Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena, Sevilla: Manuel Almendro Delia, Omar Araji, José Miguel Barquero, Román Calvo Jambrina, Marina de Cueto, Juan Gálvez Acebal, Irene Méndez, Isabel Morales, Luis Eduardo López-Cortés. Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Sevilla: Arístides de Alarcón, Emilio García, Juan Luis Haro, José Antonio Lepe, Francisco López, Rafael Luque. Hospital San Pedro, Logroño: Luis Javier Alonso, Pedro Azcárate, José Manuel Azcona Gutiérrez, José Ramón Blanco, Lara García-Álvarez, José Antonio Oteo, Mercedes Sanz. Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona: Natividad de Benito, Mercé Gurguí, Cristina Pacho, Roser Pericas, Guillem Pons. Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña: M. Álvarez, A. L. Fernández, Amparo Martínez, A. Prieto, Benito Regueiro, E. Tijeira, Marino Vega. Hospital Santiago Apóstol, Vitoria: Andrés Canut Blasco, José Cordo Mollar, Juan Carlos Gainzarain Arana, Oscar García Uriarte, Alejandro Martín López, Zuriñe Ortiz de Zárate, José Antonio Urturi Matos. Hospital SAS Línea de la Concepción, Cádiz: Gloria García Domínguez, Antonio Sánchez-Porto. Hospital Clínico Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca, Murcia: José Mª Arribas Leal, Elisa García Vázquez, Alicia Hernández Torres, Ana Blázquez, Gonzalo de la Morena Valenzuela. Hospital de Txagorritxu, Vitoria: Ángel Alonso, Javier Aramburu, Felicitas Elena Calvo, Anai Moreno Rodríguez, Paola Tarabini-Castellani. Hospital Virgen de la Salud, Toledo: Eva Heredero Gálvez, Carolina Maicas Bellido, José Largo Pau, Mª Antonia Sepúlveda, Pilar Toledano Sierra, Sadaf Zafar Iqbal-Mirza. Hospital Rafael Méndez, Lorca-Murcia: Eva Cascales Alcolea, Pilar Egea Serrano, José Joaquín Hernández Roca, Ivan Keituqwa Yañez, Ana Peláez Ballesta, Víctor Soriano. Hospital Universitario San Cecilio, Granada: Eduardo Moreno Escobar, Alejandro Peña Monje, Valme Sánchez Cabrera, David Vinuesa García. Hospital Son Llátzer, Palma de Mallorca: María Arrizabalaga Asenjo, Carmen Cifuentes Luna, Juana Núñez Morcillo, Mª Cruz Pérez Seco, Aroa Villoslada Gelabert. Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet, Zaragoza: Carmen Aured Guallar, Nuria Fernández Abad, Pilar García Mangas, Marta Matamala Adell, Mª Pilar Palacián Ruiz, Juan Carlos Porres. Hospital General Universitario Santa Lucía, Cartagena: Begoña Alcaraz Vidal, Nazaret Cobos Trigueros, María Jesús Del Amor Espín, José Antonio Giner Caro, Roberto Jiménez Sánchez, Amaya Jimeno Almazán, Alejandro Ortín Freire, Monserrat Viqueira González. Hospital Universitario Son Espases, Palma de Mallorca: Pere Pericás Ramis, Mª Ángels Ribas Blanco, Enrique Ruiz de Gopegui Bordes, Laura Vidal Bonet. Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Albacete, Albacete: Mª Carmen Bellón Munera, Elena Escribano Garaizabal, Antonia Tercero Martínez, Juan Carlos Segura Luque., [Background] Outpatient parenteral antibiotic treatment (OPAT) has proven efficacious for treating infective endocarditis (IE). However, the 2001 Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) criteria for OPAT in IE are very restrictive. We aimed to compare the outcomes of OPAT with those of hospital-based antibiotic treatment (HBAT). [Methods] Retrospective analysis of data from a multicenter, prospective cohort study of 2000 consecutive IE patients in 25 Spanish hospitals (2008–2012) was performed. [Results] A total of 429 patients (21.5%) received OPAT, and only 21.7% fulfilled IDSA criteria. Males accounted for 70.5%, median age was 68 years (interquartile range [IQR], 56–76), and 57% had native-valve IE. The most frequent causal microorganisms were viridans group streptococci (18.6%), Staphylococcus aureus (15.6%), and coagulase-negative staphylococci (14.5%). Median length of antibiotic treatment was 42 days (IQR, 32–54), and 44% of patients underwent cardiac surgery. One-year mortality was 8% (42% for HBAT; P < .001), 1.4% of patients relapsed, and 10.9% were readmitted during the first 3 months after discharge (no significant differences compared with HBAT). Charlson score (odds ratio [OR], 1.21; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.04–1.42; P = .01) and cardiac surgery (OR, 0.24; 95% CI, .09–.63; P = .04) were associated with 1-year mortality, whereas aortic valve involvement (OR, 0.47; 95% CI, .22–.98; P = .007) was the only predictor of 1-year readmission. Failing to fulfill IDSA criteria was not a risk factor for mortality or readmission. [Conclusions] OPAT provided excellent results despite the use of broader criteria than those recommended by IDSA. OPAT criteria should therefore be expanded., This work was supported by the Ministerio de Economia and Competitividad (Madrid, Spain) (FIS NCT00871104, Instituto de Salud Carlos III). J. M. P. received a “Rio Hortega” research grant from Instituto de Salud Carlos III and the Ministerio de Economia and Competitividad (Madrid, Spain) and the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases and Federation of European Microbiological Societies Research Fellowship 2016. Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Madrid, Spain) provided J. M. M. with a personal intensification research grant (INT15/00168) during 2016 and a personal 80:20 research grant from the Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques Pi i Sunyer for the period 2017–2019.
Published: 2019
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19. Invasive aspergillosis in solid organ transplantation: Diagnostic challenges and differences in outcome in a Spanish national cohort (Diaspersot study)

Author: Eta Filigheddu, Pilar Martín-Dávila, Ana Perez-Ayala, Mario Fernández-Ruiz, Laura Linares, Patricia Muñoz, Julián Torre-Cisneros, Marta Bodro, Francisco López-Medrano, Elisa Vidal, José Miguel Montejo, Claudia González-Rico, Laura Corbella, Regino Rodríguez-Álvarez, Marina Machado, Santiago Moreno, Maria Mar Ras, N. Sabé, Francisco Arnaiz, Maricela Valerio, Jesús Fortún, Jorge Calvo, Rafael Cantón, María Carmen Fariñas, Jose Maria Cifrian, José María Aguado, Sandra Pérez, Ana Fernández-Cruz, Leyre López-Soria, Asunción Moreno, and Francesca Gioia
Subjects: Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Antifungal Agents, Combination therapy, Population, Dermatology, Aspergillosis, Sensitivity and Specificity, Cohort Studies, Young Adult, Internal medicine, Epidemiology, Medicine, Humans, education, Retrospective Studies, Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis, education.field_of_study, business.industry, Incidence (epidemiology), Breakthrough infection, General Medicine, Organ Transplantation, medicine.disease, Transplantation, Causality, Infectious Diseases, Spain, Cohort, Female, Voriconazole, business
Abstract: BACKGROUND The diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis (IA) can be problematic in solid organ transplantation (SOT). The prognosis greatly varies according to the type of transplant, and the impact of prophylaxis is not well defined. PATIENTS AND METHODS The Diaspersot cohort analyses the impact of IA in SOT in Spain during the last 10 years. Proven and probable/putative IA was included. RESULTS We analysed 126 cases of IA. The incidences of IA were as follows: 6.5%, 2.9%, 1.8% and 0.6% for lung, heart, liver and kidney transplantation, respectively. EORTC/MSG criteria confirmed only 49.7% of episodes. Tree-in-bud sign or ground-glass infiltrates were present in 56.3% of patients, while serum galactomannan (optical density index >0.5) was positive in 50.6%. A total of 41.3% received combined antifungal therapy. Overall mortality at 3 months was significantly lower (p
Published: 2021

20. Subclinical atherosclerosis and endothelial dysfunction in patients with HIV infection: is there any new diagnostic test?

Author: María Carmen Fariñas, Concepción Fariñas-Álvarez, Manuel Gutiérrez-Cuadra, Vicente González-Quintanilla, Carlos Armiñanzas, Claudia González-Rico, Agustín Oterino, Francisco Arnaiz de las Revillas, Enrique Palacio, and José Antonio Parra
Subjects: Text mining, business.industry, Subclinical atherosclerosis, Immunology, medicine, Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Diagnostic test, In patient, Endothelial dysfunction, medicine.disease, business, medicine.disease_cause
Abstract: Introduction: To analyze the association between human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, and the presence of subclinical atherosclerosis and endothelial dysfunction. Methods Prospective cohort study of HIV positive patients who underwent to intimate thickness (IMT) determination and coronary artery calcium score to determine subclinical atherosclerosis. To detect endothelial dysfunction breath holding index, flow mediated dilation and concentration of endothelial progenitor cells (EPC) were measured. Results Patients with an IMT ≥ 0.9 mm had an average of 559.3 ± 283.34 CD4/µl and those with an IMT 4 ± 5x104 c/ml vs 23.4 x 104 ± 19 x 104 c /ml (p = 0.02). Early EPCs concentration in patients with a CD4 nadir
Published: 2021
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21. Analysis of sex differences in the clinical presentation, management and prognosis of infective endocarditis in Spain

Author: Víctor José González Ramallo, Claudia González-Rico, Luis Eduardo López-Cortés, José David Rodrigo Carbonero, Mariona Xercavins, Pere Pericas, Pilar Martín-Dávila, Ana Fernández-Cruz, José A. Oteo, David Nicolás, Guillermo Ojeda Burgos, Elena Muñez Rubio, Natividad Benito, Isabel M Morales Barroso, Fernando Dominguez, and Jose A. Lepe
Subjects: Aortic valve, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Risk Assessment, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Sex Factors, Internal medicine, Mitral valve, medicine, Endocarditis, Humans, 030212 general & internal medicine, Hospital Mortality, Prospective Studies, Sex Distribution, Propensity Score, Aged, business.industry, Confounding, Disease Management, medicine.disease, Prognosis, Survival Rate, medicine.anatomical_structure, Spain, Infective endocarditis, Cohort, Propensity score matching, Etiology, Female, Morbidity, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business, Follow-Up Studies
Abstract: IntroductionSex-dependent differences of infective endocarditis (IE) have been reported. Women suffer from IE less frequently than men and tend to present more severe manifestations. Our objective was to analyse the sex-based differences of IE in the clinical presentation, treatment, and prognosis.Material and methodsWe analysed the sex differences in the clinical presentation, modality of treatment and prognosis of IE in a national-level multicentric cohort between 2008 and 2018. All data were prospectively recorded by the GAMES cohort (Spanish Collaboration on Endocarditis).ResultsA total of 3451 patients were included, of whom 1105 were women (32.0%). Women were older than men (mean age, 68.4 vs 64.5). The most frequently affected valves were the aortic valve in men (50.6%) and mitral valve in women (48.7%). Staphylococcus aureus aetiology was more frequent in women (30.1% vs 23.1%; pSurgery was performed in 38.3% of women and 50% of men. After propensity score (PS) matching for age and estimated surgical risk (European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation II (EuroSCORE II)), the analysis of the matched cohorts revealed that women were less likely to undergo surgery (OR 0.74; 95% CI 0.59 to 0.91; p=0.05).The observed overall in-hospital mortality was 32.8% in women and 25.7% in men (OR for the mortality of female sex 1.41; 95% CI 1.21 to 1.65; pConclusionsFemale sex was an independent factor related to mortality after adjusting for confounders. In addition, women were less frequently referred for surgical treatment.
Published: 2021

22. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the diagnosis, management and prognosis of infective endocarditis

Author: Laura Escolà-Vergé, Guillermo Cuervo, Arístides de Alarcón, Dolores Sousa, Laura Varela Barca, Nuria Fernández-Hidalgo, Encarnación Gutiérrez-Carretero, Rafael Luque-Márquez, Blanca Anaya Baz, Luis Eduardo López-Cortés, Zaira Palacios Baena, María Victoria García López, Guillermo Ojeda Burgos, Antonio Pláta Ciézar, José María Reguera Iglesias, Ricardo Vivancos Delgado, Carmen Hidalgo-Tenorio, Sergio Sequera, null Ch, María Carmen Fariñas, Claudia González-Rico, José Francisco Gutiérrez-Díez, Gonzalo Cabezón, Javier López, Alberto San Román, Benito Almirante, Rubén Fernández, Maria Teresa Gonzàlez-Alujas, Olga Maisterra, Gerard Oristrell, María Nazarena Pizzi, Pau Rello, Remedios Ríos, Albert Roque, Antonia Sambola, Toni Soriano, Immaculada Grau, Sara Grillo, Lourdes Mateu Pruñonosa, Maria Lluïsa Pedro-Botet Montoya, Nuria Vallejo Camazón, Marta Hernández-Meneses, Jose M. Miro, Eduard Quintana, Antonio José Barros, Mercè Gurgui, Alba Rivera, María Laura Castelo Corral, Efrén Sánchez Vidal, María Teresa Pérez-Rodríguez, Adrián Sousa, Milagros Suárez, Maria Àngels Ribas Fernández, Laura Vidal Bonet, Lara García-Álvarez, José A. Oteo, Adrián Jerónimo Baza, Carmen Olmos, Isidre Vilacosta, Laura Domínguez-Pérez, Francisco López-Medrano, Javier T. Solera Rallo, José Luis Moya Mur, Enrique Navas Elorza, Andrea Kallmeyer Mayor, Ana María Pello, Luis Nieto Roca, María Aguilera García, Carmen de las Cuevas Torres, Carmen Sáez Béjar, Daniel de Castro Campos, Fernando Domínguez, Antonio Ramos-Martínez, Patricia Muñoz García, María Olmedo Samperio, Maricela Valerio Minero, Elisa García Vázquez, Alicia Hernández Torres, Encarnación Moral Escudero, Miguel Ángel Goenaga Sánchez, Xavier Kortajarena Urkola, Karlos Reviejo Jaka, Elena Bereciartua, Josune Goikoetxea, Regino Rodríguez, Martín Reyes Acevedo, and Universidad de Cantabria
Subjects: Microbiology (medical), Pais vasco, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), MEDLINE, Surveys and Questionnaires, Pandemic, medicine, Humans, Prospective Studies, Registries, Intensive care medicine, Letter to the Editor, Referral and Consultation, Aged, Retrospective Studies, Endocarditis, business.industry, COVID-19, Disease Management, General Medicine, Endocarditis, Bacterial, Middle Aged, Thoracic Surgical Procedures, medicine.disease, Prognosis, Organizational Innovation, Infectious Diseases, Spain, Infective endocarditis, Diagnosis management, Female, business
Published: 2021

23. Treatment with tocilizumab or corticosteroids for COVID-19 patients with hyperinflammatory state: a multicentre cohort study (SAM-COVID-19)

Author: Jesús Rodríguez-Baño, Jerónimo Pachón, Jordi Carratalà, Pablo Ryan, Inmaculada Jarrín, María Yllescas, José Ramón Arribas, Juan Berenguer, Esther Aznar Muñoz, Pedro Gil Divasson, Patricia González Muñiz, Clara Muñoz Aguirre, Marta Díaz Menéndez, Fernando de la Calle Prieto, Marta Arsuaga Vicente, Elena Trigo Esteban, Ignacio Pérez Valero, Rosa de Miguel Buckley, Julen Cadiñaños Loidi, Beatriz Diaz Pollan, Luz Martín Carbonero, Juan Carlos Ramos Ramos, Belén Loeches Yagüe, Rocío Montejano Sánchez, Juan González García, Julio García Rodríguez, Margarita Ramírez, Isabel Gutiérrez, Francisco Tejerina, Teresa Aldámiz-Echevarría, Cristina Díez, Chiara Fanciulli, Leire Pérez-Latorre, Blanca Pinilla, Juan Carlos López, Ana Such Diaz, Elena Álvaro Alonso, Juan Torres Macho, Guillermo Cuevas Tascon, Eva Jiménez González de Buitrago, Fátima Brañas Baztán, Jorge Valencia de la Rosa, Mario Pérez Butragueño, Inés Fernández Jiménez, Gemma Muñiz Nicolás, Antonia Sepúlveda Berrocal, Alberto Gato Díez, María Pilar Toledano Sierra, María Paz García Butenegro, Ana Isabel Peláez Ballesta, Elena Morcillo Rodríguez, Isidoro Fernández Romero, Cristina Peláez Ballesta, María Isabel Guirado Torrecillas, Josune Goikoetxea Agirre, Elena Bereciartua Bastarrica, Laura Guio Carrión, Regino Rodríguez Álvarez, Marta Ibarrola Hierro, Isabel A. Pérez Hernández, Inés Pérez Zapata, Sergio Román Soto, Mohamed Kallouchi, Juan Ramón Domínguez Vicent, Rafae Silvariño Fernández, Jon Ugalde Espiñeira, Ainhoa Sanjuan López, Silvia García Martínez, Mikel Temprano Gogenola, Víctor Asensi, Silvia Suárez, Lucia Suárez, Carmen Yllera, María Rivas-Carmenado, Alberto Romero-Palacios, Jesús Ruiz Aragón, Patricia Jiménez Aguilar, Ma Luisa Fernández Ávila, Rosario Castilla Ortiz, Vanesa Alende Castro, Cristina Pérez García, Marta Fernández Morales, María Lorena María Valle Feijoo Begoña Rodríguez Ferreira, Joan Gómez-Junyent, Judit Villar-García, Inmaculada López-Montesinos, Itziar Arrieta-Aldea, Abora Rial-Villavecchia, Elisa García Vázquez, Aychel Elena Roura Piloto, Encarnación Moral Escudero, Alicia Hernández Torres, Helena Albendín Iglesias, David Vinuesa García, Clara Martínez Montes, Francisco Javier De la Hera Fernández, Francisco Anguita Santos, Andrés Ruiz Sancho, Vicens Díaz de Brito Fernández, Montserrat Sanmarti Vilamala, Sergio España Cueto, Daniel Molina Morant, Araceli González-Cuevas, Joel Elías Chara Cervantes, Guillem Policarpo Torres, Meritxell Ortega Montoliu, Mònica Angerri Nadal, Ariadna De Genover Gil, Eleni Patera, Rita Godoy Lorenzo, Evangelia Anna María Zioga, Virginia Isern Fernández, Carlos Enrique Sabbagh Fajardo, Ana Ferrer Ribera, Carlos Bea Serrano, Rosa Oltra Sempere, Sara Vela Bernal, Paloma Albiol Viñals, Miguel Pedromingo Kus, María Ángeles Garcinuño, Silvana Fiorante, Sergio Pérez Pinto, Alexandra de la Vega, María Carmen Fariñas Álvarez, Claudia González Rico, Francisco Arnaiz de las Revillas, Teresa Giménez, Jorge Calvo, Yolanda Meije Castillo, Alejandra Duarte Borges, Júlia Pareja Coca, Mercedes Clemente Presas, Xavier Sanz Salvador, Ma Teresa Pérez Rodríguez, Adrián Sousa, Alexandre Pérez González, Rebeca Longueira, Alejandro Araujo, Blanca Alonso Martínez, Laura García Escudero, Sara Lidia Kamel Rey, David Roa Alonso, Juan Pablo Avilés Parra, Iván Pelegrín Senent, Rosana Rouco Esteves Marques, Laia Raich Montiu, Jessica Souto Higueras, Manuel Alejandro Gálvez Bobadilla, Jorge Parra Ruiz, Violeta Ramos Sesma, Sara Velasco Fuentes, Laura García Pereña, Alfonso Lluna Carrascosa, Sergio Gilaberte Reyzábal, Mónica Liébana Gómez, Juan Salillas Hernando, Alberto Serrano Martínez, Miguel Torralba González de Suso, Patricia Martínez Martín, Isabel Rábago Lorite, Patricia González-Ruano Pérez, Beatriz Pérez-Monte Mínguez, Ángeles García Flores, Pere Comas Casanova, Andrea Martín Plata, Sergio Manuel Santana Báez, Oscar Sanz Peláez, Karim Mohamed Ramírez, José María Robaina Bordón, Helem Haydeé Vílchez Rueda, Melchor Riera Jaume, Gemma Mut Ramon, Meritxell Gavalda Manso, Lluis Planas Bibiloni, Laura Castelo Corral, Lucía Ramos Merino, Efrén Sánchez Vidal, María Rodríguez Mayo, Enrique Míguez Rey, José M. García de Lomas Guerrero, Javier De la Torre Lima, Ana Correa Ruiz, Fernando Fernández Sánchez, Nicolás Jiménez-García, José Luis Sierra-Monzón, Borja Gracia-Tello, María Hernández-Bonaga, Galadriel Pellejero, Marta Asín-Corrochano, Lucia Boix Palop, Esther Calbo, Cristina Badía, Beatriz Dietl, Gómez Lucía, Ángel Domínguez-Castellano, María José Ríos-Villegas, María D. del Toro, Zaira R. Palacios Baena, Elena Salamanca-Rivera, Elena Marín, Virginia Almadana, Salvador Pérez-Galera, Luisa González-Iglesias, Gabriela Abelenda-Alonso, Claudia Álvarez-Pouso, Francesc Escrihuela, Carlota Gudiol, Laia Lorenzo-Esteller, Jordi Niubó, Daniel Podzamczer, Miquel Pujol, Alexander Rombauts, Miguel Salvert Lletí, Ricardo Gil Sánchez, Marta Jiménez Escrig, Laura Parra Gómez, Mariona Tasias Pitarch, Marta Navarro Vilasaró, María Luisa Machado Sicilia, Aina Gomila Grange, Sonia Calzado Isbert, Nerea Carrasco Antón, Elizabet Petkova-Saiz, Alfonso Cabello Úbeda, Miguel Górgolas Hernández-Mora, Olga Sánchez-Pernaute, Carlos Dueñas Gutiérrez, Javier Martin Guerra, José Javier Castrodeza Sanz, Virginia Fernández Espinilla, Laura Rodríguez Fernández, Juan González-Moreno, Aroa Villoslada Gelabert, María Antonia Ribot Sanso, María Victoria Fernández-Baca, Almudena Hernández Milian, Miguel Ángel Morán Rodríguez, Zuriñe Ortiz de Zárate Ibarra, José Joaquin Portu Zapirain, Ester Saez de Adana Arroniz, Juan Carlos Gainzarain Arana, Olga Meca Birlanga, Ma Jesús del Amor Espín, Montserrat Viqueira González, Josefina García García, Onofre Martínez Madrid, Enrique Bernal Morell, Antonia Alcaraz, Ángeles Muñoz, Ignacio Pina, Vicente de la Rosa, Tamara Caínzos Romero, Sabela Sánchez Trigo, Ana Isabel Mariño Callejo, Hortensia Álvarez Díaz, Nieves Valcarce Pardeiro, Adriana Sánchez Serrano, Diana Piñar Cabezos, Eva Pilar García Villalba, Carmen Aguayo Jiménez, María Ruíz Campuzano, Virginia Naranjo Velasco, Marta Santos Peña, Juan Mora Delgado, Israel Sevilla Moreno, Cristina Lojo Cruz, Xabier Kortajarena Urkola, José Antonio Iribarren Loyarte, María Jesús Bustinduy Odriozola, Maialen Ibarguren Pinilla, Ignacio Álvarez Rodríguez, Francisco Javier Martínez Marcos, Francisco Javier Rodríguez Gómez, Isabel Asschert Agüero, Francisco Muñoz Beamud, Antonio José Ruiz Reina, Jara Llenas-García, Inmaculada González-Cuello, Elena Hellín-Valiente, Esther Martínez Birlanga, José Manuel Tafalla Torres, Jorge Calderón Parra, Gabriela Escudero López, Isabel Gutiérrez Martín, Ane Andrés Eisenhofer, Sonia García Prieto, Raquel Álvarez Franco, Daniel Roger Zapata, Blanca Martínez Cifre, Elena Aranda Rife, Irene Martín Rubio, André Barbosa Ventura, Javier Garrido, Concepción Gonzalo, Iván Piñero, Nieves de la Cruz Felipe, Eva Talavera García, Marta Lamata Subero, Paula Mendoza Roy, María Soledad García de Carlos, Justo Lajusticia Aisa, Lorea Arteche Eguizabal, Ainhoa Urrutia Losada, Saioa Domingo Echaburu, Pedro Ángel Cuadros Tito, Gurutz Orbe Narváez, Ma del Carmen Liébana Martos, Carolina Roldán Fontana, Carmen Herrero Rodríguez, Gaspar Duro Ruiz, Santiago Pérez Parra, Arantzazu Mera Fidalgo, Miquel Hortos Alsina, Ana Alberich Conesa, Lourdes Bladé Vidal, Nicolás Merchante Gutiérrez, Eva León Jiménez, Reinaldo Espíndola Gómez, María Erostarbe Gallardo, Pedro Martínez Pérez-Crespo, José Miguel Cisneros, Manuela Aguilar-Guisado, Teresa Aldabó, Claudio Bueno, Elisa Cordero-Matía, Ana Escoresca, Carmen Infante, Martín Guillermo, Sonsoles Salto, Francesca Gioia, Pilar Vizcarra, Jesús Fortún Abete, Pilar Martín Dávila, Santiago Moreno Guillén, José A. Oteo Revuelta, Concepción García-García, Paula Santibañez Sáenz, Cristina Cervera Acedo, José M. Azcona Gutiérrez, José María Reguera Iglesias, Antonio Plata Ciezar, Lucia Valiente de Santis, Beatriz Sobrino Diaz, Juan Diego Ruiz Mesa, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Fundación SEIMC/GeSIDA, Instituto de Salud Carlos III - ISCIII, European Regional Development Fund (ERDF/FEDER), Red Española de Investigación en SIDA, Red Española de Investigación en Patología Infecciosa, UAM. Departamento de Medicina, UAM. Departamento de Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública y Microbiología, Universidad de Cantabria, SAM-COVID Study Group, [Rodríguez-Baño,J] Unidad Clínica de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Microbiología y Medicina Preventiva, Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena, Sevilla, Spain. [Rodríguez-Baño,J, Pachón,J] Departamento de Medicina, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain. [Rodríguez-Baño,J, Pachón,J] Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Seville, Spain. [Pachón,J] Unidad Clínica de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Microbiología y Medicina Preventiva, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Sevilla, Spain. [Carratalà,J] Servei de Malalties Infeccioses, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain. [Carratalà,J] Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), Barcelona, Spain. [Carratalà,J] Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. [Ryan,P] Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Universitario Infanta Leonor, Madrid, Spain. [Jarrín,I] Centro Nacional de Epidemiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain. [Yllescas,M] Fundación SEIMC/GeSIDA, Madrid, Spain. [Arribas,JR] Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Universitario La Paz, IdiPAZ, Madrid, Spain. [Arribas,JR] Instituto de Investigación Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain. [Berenguer,J] Servicio de Microbiología Clínica y Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain. [Berenguer,J] Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón (IiSGM), Madrid, Spain., Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Unión Europea. Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER/ERDF), Red de Investigación Cooperativa en Investigación en Sida (España), Red de Investigación Cooperativa en Investigación en Patología Infecciosa (España), Gilead Sciences, ViiV Healthcare, AbbVie Pharmaceuticals, Merck & Co, Janssen Biotech, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), European Commission, Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Medicina, Instituto Carlos III (España), and Unión Europea
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Male, law.invention, Organisms::Eukaryota::Animals::Chordata::Vertebrates::Mammals::Primates::Haplorhini::Catarrhini::Hominidae::Humans [Medical Subject Headings], chemistry.chemical_compound, 0302 clinical medicine, Organisms::Viruses::RNA Viruses::Nidovirales::Coronaviridae [Medical Subject Headings], Randomized controlled trial, law, Adrenal Cortex Hormones, Clinical endpoint, Medicine, 030212 general & internal medicine, Hospital Mortality, Health Care::Environment and Public Health::Public Health::Epidemiologic Measurements::Demography::Vital Statistics::Mortality [Medical Subject Headings], Adrenocortical hormones, Hazard ratio, General Medicine, Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment::Therapeutics::Intubation::Intubation, Intratracheal [Medical Subject Headings], Middle Aged, Tocilizumab, Hospitalization, Infectious Diseases, Treatment Outcome, Diseases::Virus Diseases::RNA Virus Infections::Nidovirales Infections::Coronaviridae Infections [Medical Subject Headings], Drug Therapy, Combination, Female, Cohort study, Microbiology (medical), medicine.medical_specialty, Diseases::Virus Diseases::RNA Virus Infections::Nidovirales Infections::Coronaviridae Infections::Coronavirus Infections::Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome [Medical Subject Headings], Combination therapy, Medicina, Hyperinflammatory state, 030106 microbiology, Estudios de cohortes, Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, Internal medicine, Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment::Investigative Techniques::Epidemiologic Methods::Epidemiologic Study Characteristics as Topic::Epidemiologic Studies::Cohort Studies::Longitudinal Studies::Follow-Up Studies [Medical Subject Headings], Intubation, Intratracheal, Mortalitat, Humans, Corticosteroids, Mortality, Corticoesteroides, Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment::Diagnosis::Prognosis::Treatment Outcome [Medical Subject Headings], Aged, Proportional Hazards Models, Retrospective Studies, Geographical Locations::Geographic Locations::Europe::Spain [Medical Subject Headings], Inflammation, business.industry, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, Odds ratio, Chemicals and Drugs::Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists::Hormones::Adrenal Cortex Hormones [Medical Subject Headings], Corticosteroides, COVID-19 Drug Treatment, Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment::Investigative Techniques::Epidemiologic Methods::Statistics as Topic::Probability::Propensity Score [Medical Subject Headings], chemistry, Spain, Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment::Investigative Techniques::Epidemiologic Methods::Epidemiologic Study Characteristics as Topic::Epidemiologic Studies::Cohort Studies [Medical Subject Headings], Propensity score matching, Mortalidad, Monoclonal antibodies, business, Diseases::Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms::Pathologic Processes::Inflammation [Medical Subject Headings], Anticossos monoclonals
Abstract: © 2020 The Author(s)., [Objectives]: The objective of this study was to estimate the association between tocilizumab or corticosteroids and the risk of intubation or death in patients with coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) with a hyperinflammatory state according to clinical and laboratory parameters., [Methods]: A cohort study was performed in 60 Spanish hospitals including 778 patients with COVID-19 and clinical and laboratory data indicative of a hyperinflammatory state. Treatment was mainly with tocilizumab, an intermediate-high dose of corticosteroids (IHDC), a pulse dose of corticosteroids (PDC), combination therapy, or no treatment. Primary outcome was intubation or death; follow-up was 21 days. Propensity score-adjusted estimations using Cox regression (logistic regression if needed) were calculated. Propensity scores were used as confounders, matching variables and for the inverse probability of treatment weights (IPTWs)., [Results]: In all, 88, 117, 78 and 151 patients treated with tocilizumab, IHDC, PDC, and combination therapy, respectively, were compared with 344 untreated patients. The primary endpoint occurred in 10 (11.4%), 27 (23.1%), 12 (15.4%), 40 (25.6%) and 69 (21.1%), respectively. The IPTW-based hazard ratios (odds ratio for combination therapy) for the primary endpoint were 0.32 (95%CI 0.22–0.47; p < 0.001) for tocilizumab, 0.82 (0.71–1.30; p 0.82) for IHDC, 0.61 (0.43–0.86; p 0.006) for PDC, and 1.17 (0.86–1.58; p 0.30) for combination therapy. Other applications of the propensity score provided similar results, but were not significant for PDC. Tocilizumab was also associated with lower hazard of death alone in IPTW analysis (0.07; 0.02–0.17; p < 0.001)., [Conclusions]: Tocilizumab might be useful in COVID-19 patients with a hyperinflammatory state and should be prioritized for randomized trials in this situation., IJ has received honoraria for participating in an advisory board from Gilead Sciences, and for educational activities from ViiV. JB has received research grants from AbbVie, Gilead Sciences, Merck, and ViiV, and honoraria for being a speaker or advisory board participation from AbbVie, Gilead Sciences, Janssen, Merck, and ViiV. JRA received fees for participating in an advisory board, being a speaker, and research grant support from Viiv, Janssen, Gilead, MSD, Teva, Alexa and Serono. PR is involved as speaker or advisory board participant for Gilead Sciences, AbbVie and ViiV. JR-B, JP, JC and MY have no conflicts of interest to declare. SAM-COVID was funded by Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, Instituto de Salud Carlos III (COV20/01031) co-funded by European Union (ERDF/ESF, “Investing in your future”) and Fundación SEIMC/GeSIDA. In addition, Juan Berenguer, Jesús Rodríguez-Baño, Inmaculada Jarrín, Jordi Carratalá, Jerónimo Pachón, and José R Arribas received funding for research from Plan Nacional de I+D+i 2013-2016 and Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Subdirección General de Redes y Centros de Investigación Cooperativa, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades – co- financed by European Development Regional Fund “A way to achieve Europe”, Operative program Intelligent Growth 2014–2020 through the networks: Spanish AIDS Research Network (RIS) [RD16/0025/0017 (JB), RD16/0025/0018 (JRA), RD16/0025/00XX (IJ)] and Spanish Network for Research in Infectious Diseases (REIPI)[RD16/0016/0001 (JRB), RD16/0016/0005 (JC), and RD16/0016/0009 (JP).
Published: 2021

24. Development and validation of a prediction model for 30-day mortality in hospitalised patients with COVID-19: the COVID-19 SEIMC score

Author: Juan Salillas, Miguel Fernández Huerta, Patricio González-Pizarro, Francisco Javier Membrillo, Raul Galera, Jesús Rodríguez-Baño, Lydia Galvez, Juan Cuadros-González, Aina Gabarrell-Pascuet, Jorge Diaz-Garzon, INMA JARRIN, Claudia González-Rico, Alicia Rico Nieto, Cristina Cervera, Carlos Bea Serrano, Alberto Ouro Villasante, Guillermo Ruiz-Carrascoso, Beatriz Díaz-Pollán, María del mar Arcos Rueda, Julio Garcia-Rodriguez, BELEN GUTIÉRREZ-GUTIÉRREZ, MARCO ANTONIO SEMPERE ALCOCER, Cristina Verdú Sánchez, Lucía Hernández-Rivas, Guillermo Cuervo, Alejandro Smithson, Miguel Torralba, Iván Bloise, Alexander Rombauts, Carlos Toro, Lucio Jesus García-Fraile Fraile, Alejandro García-Ruiz de Morales, Cecilia Tortajada, KAPIL LAXMAN NANWANI NANWANI, Lorena De la Mora Cañizo, Laia Lorenzo-Esteller, Jorge Álvarez Troncoso, Cristina Roca Oporto, Alejandro Martin-Quiros, José A. Oteo, Eduardo Malmierca Corral, Stefan Stewart, Jerónimo Pachón, Almudena Gutiérrez-Arroyo, Moreno-Cuerda Victor, Carlos Carpio, Emilio Cendejas-Bueno, Pilar Fernandez-Calle, Antonio Javier Carcas Sansuán, Alexy Inciarte, Pablo Ryan, Luis Puente-Maestu, Jesús Troya García, Francisco de Asís Alcántara Nicolás, Gabriela Abelenda-Alonso, Natividad Benito, Daniel Prieto Arribas, Jesus Mingorance, Jose L Del Pozo, Jordi Carratala, Cristina Marcelo, Marta Ruiz-Algueró, Sarah CARO BRAGADO, Juan Berenguer, Vicens Diaz-Brito, Víctor Hontañón Antoñana, Julen Cadiñanos, Jose Arribas, María Jesús Jaras Hernández, Henar Calvo Sánchez, Elisa Cordero, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Fundación Seimc-Gesida, Plan Nacional de I+D+i (España), Ministerio de Ciencia y Universidades (España), Unión Europea. Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER/ERDF), Red de Investigación Cooperativa en Investigación en Sida (España), Red de Investigación Cooperativa en Investigación en Patología Infecciosa (España), Fundación SEIMC-GESIDA, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), European Commission, Red Española de Investigación en SIDA, Red Española de Investigación en Patología Infecciosa, Universidad de Cantabria, UAM. Departamento de Farmacología, and UAM. Departamento de Medicina
Subjects: Male, Neutrophils, Respiratory Infection, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Logistic regression, 0302 clinical medicine, Diagnòstic, Risk Factors, Respiratory infection, Diagnosis, Epidemiology, 030212 general & internal medicine, Hospital Mortality, Aged, 80 and over, Prediction theory, Age Factors, clinical epidemiology, Middle Aged, Tool, Emergency medicine, Female, Glomerular Filtration Rate, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Adult, Prognostic variable, medicine.medical_specialty, Medicina, Renal function, Diagnosis tripod, 03 medical and health sciences, Sex Factors, emergency medicine, Internal medicine, medicine, pneumonia, Humans, Derivation, Lymphocyte Count, Aged, Inpatients, Receiver operating characteristic, business.industry, SARS-CoV-2, Clinical epidemiology, COVID-19, Pneumonia, medicine.disease, Individual prognosis, critical care, Oxygen, Critical care, Logistic Models, Dyspnea, ROC Curve, Teoria de la predicció, Viral infection, viral infection, business, Kidney disease
Abstract: COVID-19@Spain and COVID@HULP Study., [Objective] To develop and validate a prediction model of mortality in patients with COVID-19 attending hospital emergency rooms., [Design] Multivariable prognostic prediction model., [Setting] 127 Spanish hospitals., [Participants] Derivation (DC) and external validation (VC) cohorts were obtained from multicentre and single-centre databases, including 4035 and 2126 patients with confirmed COVID-19, respectively., [Interventions] Prognostic variables were identified using multivariable logistic regression., [Main outcome measures] 30-day mortality., [Results] Patients’ characteristics in the DC and VC were median age 70 and 61 years, male sex 61.0% and 47.9%, median time from onset of symptoms to admission 5 and 8 days, and 30-day mortality 26.6% and 15.5%, respectively. Age, low age-adjusted saturation of oxygen, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio, estimated glomerular filtration rate by the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) equation, dyspnoea and sex were the strongest predictors of mortality. Calibration and discrimination were satisfactory with an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve with a 95% CI for prediction of 30-day mortality of 0.822 (0.806–0.837) in the DC and 0.845 (0.819–0.870) in the VC. A simplified score system ranging from 0 to 30 to predict 30-day mortality was also developed. The risk was considered to be low with 0–2 points (0%–2.1%), moderate with 3–5 (4.7%–6.3%), high with 6–8 (10.6%–19.5%) and very high with 9–30 (27.7%–100%)., [Conclusions] A simple prediction score, based on readily available clinical and laboratory data, provides a useful tool to predict 30-day mortality probability with a high degree of accuracy among hospitalised patients with COVID-19., This work was supported by Fundación SEIMC/GeSIDA. The funders had no role in study design, data collection, data interpretation or writing of the manuscript. JB, JRB, IJ, JC, JP and JRA received funding for research from Plan Nacional de I+D+i 2013‐2016 and Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Subdirección General de Redes y Centros de Investigación Cooperativa, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, cofinanced by the European Development Regional Fund “A way to achieve Europe”, Operative program Intelligent Growth 2014‐2020. Spanish AIDS Research Network (RIS) (RD16/0025/0017 (JB), RD16/0025/0018 (JRA), RD16CIII/0002/0006 (IJ)). Spanish Network for Research in Infectious Diseases (REIPI) (RD16/0016/0001 (JRB), RD16/0016/0005 (JC) and RD16/0016/0009 (JP)).
Published: 2021

25. Efficacy and Safety of Oral Fosfomycin for Asymptomatic Bacteriuria in Kidney Transplant Recipients: Results from a Spanish Multicenter Cohort

Author: Cristina Jironda-Gallegos, María Milagro Montero, Gesitra‐Ic, Elisa Cordero, Darío Janeiro, REDinREN Reipi, Carlos Armiñanzas, José María Aguado, Antonio José Moreno, Emilio Rodrigo, María O. López-Oliva, Cristina Roca, Domingo Hernández, Amado Andrés, José Tiago Silva, Julia Origüen, Esperanza Merino, Antonia Calvo-Cano, Juan Pablo Horcajada, Seimc., Elisa Vidal, Belén Loeches, Dolores Redondo, Claudia González-Rico, Julio Pascual, María Ruiz-Ruigómez, B. Sánchez-Sobrino, Miguel Montejo, Francisco López-Medrano, Ricardo Lauzurica, María Carmen Fariñas, Enrique Luna-Huerta, Rosa Escudero-Sánchez, Mario Fernández-Ruiz, Isabel Pérez-Flores, Francisco Javier Candel, Francesca Gioia, Universidad de Cantabria, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), Red Española de Investigación en Patología Infecciosa, and European Commission
Subjects: medicine.medical_specialty, Salvage therapy, 030230 surgery, Fosfomycin, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Interquartile range, Internal medicine, medicine, Pharmacology (medical), Adverse effect, Kidney transplant, Pharmacology, 0303 health sciences, 030306 microbiology, business.industry, Retrospective cohort study, Odds ratio, Transplantation, Infectious Diseases, Susceptibility, Cohort, business, Asymptomatic bacteriuria, medicine.drug
Abstract: Current guidelines recommend against systematic screening for or treating asymptomatic bacteriuria (AB) among kidney transplant (KT) recipients, although the evidence regarding episodes occurring early after transplantation or in the presence of anatomical abnormalities is inconclusive. Oral fosfomycin may constitute a good option for the treatment of posttransplant AB, particularly due to the emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) uropathogens. Available clinical evidence supporting its use in this specific setting, however, remains scarce. We performed a retrospective study in 14 Spanish institutions from January 2005 to December 2017. Overall, 137 episodes of AB diagnosed in 133 KT recipients treated with oral fosfomycin (calcium and trometamol salts) with a test-of-cure urine culture within the first 30 days were included. Median time from transplantation to diagnosis was 3.1 months (interquartile range [IQR], 1.1 to 10.5). Most episodes (96.4% [132/137]) were caused by Gram-negative bacteria (GNB), and 56.9% (78/137) were categorized as MDR (extended‐spectrum β‐lactamase‐producing Enterobacterales [20.4%] and carbapenem‐resistant GNB [2.9%]). Rate of microbiological failure at month 1 was 40.1% (95% confidence interval [CI], 31.9% to 48.9%) for the whole cohort and 42.3% (95% CI, 31.2% to 54.0%) for episodes due to MDR pathogens. Previous urinary tract infection (odds ratio [OR], 2.42; 95% CI, 1.11 to 5.29; P value = 0.027) and use of fosfomycin as salvage therapy (OR, 8.31; 95% CI, 1.67 to 41.35; P value = 0.010) were predictors of microbiological failure. No severe treatment-related adverse events were detected. Oral fosfomycin appears to be a suitable and safe alternative for the treatment (if indicated) of AB after KT, including those episodes due to MDR uropathogens., This study was supported by Plan Nacional de I+D+i 2013‐2016 and Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Subdirección General de Redes y Centros de Investigación Cooperativa, Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spanish Network for Research in Infectious Diseases (REIPI RD16/0016), and Spanish Network for Research in Renal Diseases (REDInREN RD16/0009) and cofinanced by the European Development Regional Fund entitled A way to achieve Europe. M.F.-R. holds a research contract (Miguel Servet, CP18/00073), from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, ISCIII.
Published: 2021

26. Identification and validation of clinical phenotypes with prognostic implications in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19: a multicentre cohort study

Author: Jaime Fernández-Bujarrabal Villoslada, Beatriz Dietl Gómez-Luengo, Daniel Ortiz-Sánchez, José Ramón Blanco Ramos, Bartolomé Gómez-Arroyo, Martín Sebastián Ruiz Grinspan, Ester Sáez de Adana Arróniz, Daniel Daniel López, Judit Villar-García, Begoña De Dios García, Josefina García García, Nuria Rabella García, Ana Rodríguez-Revillas, Lydia Martín González, Mercedes San Franco, Elena Martinez Robles, Teresa González Alegre, Elena Morcillo Rodríguez, Oriol Gasch Blasi, Laura Prieto Pérez, Isabel Jiménez Martínez, Elena Isaba Ares, Ricardo Deza-Palacios, Helena Mendez del Sol, Melchor Riera Jaume, Mercedes Rodriguez-Gutiérrez, Daniel Podzamczer, Mikel Urroz, Luis Ramos Ruperto, María Paniagua, Sergio Alcolea-Batres, Mar Masiá Canuto, Rubén Soriano-Arroyo, Paloma Merino Amador, Berta Antón-Huguet, Gabriela Alcaraz, Pablo Ryan, Carlos Franco, Leyre Díez-Porres, Juan Carlos Figueiras, Sara Lidia Kamal, Mónica Hernández, Lorena Barrera-López, Germán Ramírez-Olivencia, Kapil Laxman Nanwani Nanwani, Alberto Oreja, Montserrat Laguno, José Javier Castrodeza Sanz, Belén Loeches Yagüe, Maria Vargas, Luis Eduardo López-Cortés, Isabel Gutiérrez, Sara Vela Berna, P. Martín, Miguel Pedromingo Kus, Jesús Sanz Sanz, Mº Antonia Sepúlveda Berrocal, Carmen Yera Bergua, Juan Cuadros González, Julen Cadiñanos Loidi, Josefa Serralta Buades, María Concepción Prados Sánchez, Francesca Gioia, Iris Pedrola Gorrea, Francisco Arnaiz de las Revillas, Xabier Kortajarena Urkola, Laia Lorenzo-Esteller, Ruth Bravo-Lizcano, Angel Iniesta, Sofía González-García, Belén Martínez López, Agustín Rojas-Vieyra, Concepción García García, Raquel Cavallé-Pulla, Lucía Gómez García, Alicia Herrero, Carlos Jesús Dueñas Gutiérrez, Loreto Vidaur Tello, Carmen Fernández-Capitán, Victoria Lo-Iacono García, Cecilia Gómez-Domínguez, Adalgisa Falcone, María José Ruiz Rodríguez, Arancha Castellano, Miquel Hortos Alsina, María Concepción Nuñez, María Luisa Fernández Vidal, Jésica Abadia Otero, Natalia Moya-González, Albert Sabater Gil, Pedro de la Oliva, Ylenia María Conde-Alonso, Laura Castelo Corral, José Mº García de Lomas Guerrero, Verónica Pérez-Blanco, Isabel San Juan, Martina Archinà, Júlia Sellarés, Juan Carlos Ramos, Cintia María Martínez Mateu, Belén Fernández-Puntero, Andrea Torrecillas-Mainez, Luis Falgueras López, Carlos Carpio-Segura, María Gandullo-Moro, Francisco Abellán Martínez, Cristina Díez, Pilar Martín Dávila, Silvia Gómez-Zorrilla, María Pilar García García, Renzo Tejada-Sorados, María Dolores del Toro, E. Álvarez-Rojas, Gema Muñiz, Lucía Cajuela, María Novella Mena, Estel Pons Viñas, Andrea Pérez Rodríguez, Benito Almirante, Mónica Gozalo, Patricia Girón De Velasco-Sada, Camilo Sanz Zamudio, Ángeles García Flores, Joaquín López-Contreras González, Blanca Fabre-Estremera, Pelayo Fernández Cidón, María Martínez-Redondo, Paula Alejandra Hernández-Liebo, Juan Herrero, Marta Duque-Alcorta, María Teresa García Morales, Concepción Amador Prous, Alex Soriano, Raquel Hernando Nieto, Raquel Álvarez Franco, Alfonso Cabello Úbeda, Luis Force Sanmartín, Laura Mao Martín, Daniel Prieto-Arribas, Mario Pérez-Butragueño, Pere Domingo Pedrol, Henar Serrano-Martín, Mónica Zubimendi, M. Rodríguez-Rubio, David Pujol-Pocull, Manuel García-Gutiérrez, Carlos Manrique de Lara, Lucy Abella Vázquez, Marta Navarro Vilasaró, Carlota Cascajares-Sanz, Berta Torres, Daniel Ceniza-Pena, Isidro Moreno Gómez-Limón, María Rodríguez Mahía, Alí Martakoush, Antonio Buño-Soto, Patricia Serrano de la Fuente, Claudia González Rico, Teresa Pedraz, Conchita Pérez-Jorge Peremarch, Elena Trigo Esteban, Rosana Rouco Esteves Marques, Juan Mora Delgado, Inés Pérez Zapata, Sandra Pérez-Recio, María Ángeles Domínguez, Manuel Cervantes García, Francisco Reinoso-Lozano, M. Martí De Gracia, Carmina Oltra, Beatriz Pérez-Monte Mínguez, Guillermina Bejarano-Redondo, Sara Heili Frades, María Paz García Butenegro, Miguel Torralba González de Suso, Elena Álvaro-Alonso, Víctor J Moreno Cuerda, Gonzalo Garzón, Marcelo Daltro-Lage, Alberto Serrano Martínez, José María Aguado, Mar Mosquera, Ruth Figueroa Cerón, Juan Carlos Martin Gutiérrez, Javier Oliver Ortega, Esteban Martínez, Cristina Gómez-Ayerbe, Nerea Carrasco Antón, María Carmen Fariñas Álvarez, José Antonio Ruiz, Justo Menéndez, Lucía Díaz, José L. Casado, Pilar Vizcarra, Javier Veganzones, Miguel Ángel Moran Rodríguez, Mercedes López-Martinez, Emilio Letang, Paloma Romero Gallego-Acho, Julia Vasquez-Manau, Alexander Rombauts, Marta Robledo del Prado, Luis Puente, Beatriz Alvarez, Juan Emilio Losa García, José Tomas Algado Rabasa, Rafael Torres Perea, Angélica Rivera-Núñez, Esther Expósito Palomo, Antonio J. Carcas, Lucía Platero-Dueñas, Irene Martín Rubio, Miguel Salavert Lletí, Claudia García-Vaz, Antonio Martínez-Verdasco, Jorge Díaz-Garzón, Javier Nieto Arana, Fernando Cadenas-Gota, Richard Rojas, Abelardo García de Lorenzo, Juan Carlos López, Pedro Luis Martinez Hernández, Manuela de Pablos-Gómez, Pablo Alonso, Enrique Seco, María García-López, Lorena López-Corcuer, Celia Blasco-Andres, Delia Romera-Cano, José M. Azcona Gutiérrez, Almudena Gutiérrez-Arroyo, Paula Mendoza Roy, Ignacio De los Santos Gil, Miguel Angel Sánchez-Castellano, Sara Medrano Pardo, Mikel del Álamo Martínez de Lagos, Rocío Martínez Avilés, Elisabet Martínez-Cerón, José Manuel Vázquez Comendador, Marta Virgós-Varela, Alejandra Álvarez Brandt, Carmen Herrero Rodríguez, Jorge Martínez Jordán, Antonio Rezusta López, Marta Vizcaíno Callejón, Manuela Simon-Velasco, Jorge Ignacio Alonso-Eiras, Elisa García Vázquez, Mercè Gurguí Ferrer, Mónica González Bardanca, Nataly Cancelliere-Fernández, José Luis Díaz de Tuesta del Arco, María Larrosa, Alejandro García García, Carmen Román-Hernández, Elena Calvin-García, José Sanz Moreno, Miguel Silvestre-Niño, Nieves Valcarce Pardeiro, Maria Teresa Corcuera-Pindado, Enrique Monteoliva, Aina Gabarrell Pascuet, Elena María Aranda Rife, Aina Gomila Grange, Alba Alastrué Violeta, Daniel Roger Zapata, Jaime Montserrat, Eduardo Malmierca Corral, Marco Palma, Blanca Martínez Cifre, Gema Domínguez de Pablos, Emilio Cuesta, Eva Perales, Silvia Hernáez Crespo, Juan Torres-Macho, Adrián Sánchez Montalvá, Rocío Montejano Sánchez, Eva Van den Eynde Otero, Silvia Castañeda Espinosa, Virginia Pérez Doñate, Adriana Hernández Belmonte, Laura Iglesias Llorente, María Sanz de Pedro, Juan Espinosa Pereiro, Lubna Dani Ben-Abdellah, Raquel Barrós González, Iván Piñero, Araceli López-Tofiño, Ana Such-Diaz, Karim Mohamed Ramírez, Pilar Toledano Sierra, Rebeca Izquierdo, Guillermo Cuevas, Andrés Felipe Cardona Arias, Ileana Gabriela-Tomoiu, David Vinuesa García, Ander González Sarria, Stephan Stuart, José María Fernández, Javier Torres-Cortés, Elisabet Delgado Sánchez, María Varela-Cerdeira, Gemma Bassani, Berta Román Bernal, Isabel García, Paula Betancort de la Torre, Yolanda Martínez-Abad, Beatriz Arizcun, Juan José Cabanillas-Martín, Guillermo Estrada Fernández, Oscar del Río Pérez, Inmaculada Martín Pérez, Andony García, Luis Gómez-Carrera, Alexander Agrifoglio, Alberto M. Borobia, Jordi Niubó, Vanessa Alende Castro, Lara Montes Andújar, Alexandra De la Vega, Efrén Sánchez Vidal, Isabel A. Pérez Hernández, Laura Frade-Pardo, Ana Josefa Tebar-Martinez, Silvia Álvarez Kaelis, Sara De la Fuente Moral, Luz Martin Carbonero, Juan Cantón De Seoane, María Dolores Montero-Vega, Juan Carlos Gainzarain Arana, Sergio España Cueto, Rocío Nuñez-Cabetas, María Sánchez-Martín, Constanza Muñoz Hornero, Ana Gómez-Zamora, Javier Díaz Luperena, Patricia González-Donapetry, José Miguel Cisneros, Lucía Hernández-Rivas, Patricia González Ruano, Andrea Espigares Correa, Rocío González-León, Nicolás García-Arenzana, Omar Cervera, Andrés Canut Blasco, Ana Isabel Cañabate, Mercedes Villarreal García-Lomas, Melania Íñigo Pestaña, Maria Álvarez de Castro, Ana Correa Ruiz, Belén Civantos, Lydia Pascual-García, Paula Villares Fernández, Mikel Rico-Briñas, María José Alcaide-Martín, Adoración Valiente, Victoria Arnalich-Montiel, Pilar Retamar, Jesús Mingorance, Eva María Romay Lema, Pablo Galindo-Ballesteros, M. Teresa Pérez-Rodríguez, Rosario Maria Torres Santos-Olmo, Inmaculada Pinilla, Elie Dahdouh, Beatriz Tejero-Soriano, Cristina Pizarro-Sanchez, Félix Gutiérrez Rodero, Luis Jara-Palomares, María Hernández-Gancedo, Cristina Chico Chumillas, Sergio Gilaberte Reyzábal, Manuel González-Viñolis, Ana Martínez Sapiña, Francisco Parras, Teresa Rubio Obanos, Iker Falces-Romero, Adriana Sánchez Serrano, Teresa Álvarez de Espejo Montiel, Jorge Valencia, Miquel Pujol, José Luis Velasco Garrido, Belén Calderón-Llopis, Álvaro Varela Plaza, Abel Caro, Juan José González-Garcia, Miguel Sampedro Núñez, María Fernández-Velilla, Emilio Cendejas-Bueno, María Cecilia Cánepa, José Luis Santiago Blanco, Alicia Rico-Nieto, Mónica Liébana Gómez, Sarah Caro Bragado, Susana Sánchez-Rico, José María Marimón Ortiz de Zárate, Paloma Dorao, Cristina Plaza-Moreno, Isabel Valbuena, Natividad Benito Hernández, Ginger Giorgiana Cabrera Tejada, Jordi Carratalà, Sara Fernández Rodríguez, Vicente Ferrer Díaz De Brito Fernández, Pilar Catalán, Pablo Mariscal-Aguilar, Germán Daroca-Bengoa, Rafael Fernandez, Raquel Casitas-Mateo, Ester Zamarrón de Lucas, Úrsula Quesada, Julio Yagüe, María Isabel Quijano Contreras, Trinidad Baselga-Puente, Lourdes Herrera Pacheco, Carlota Gudiol, Alazne Lartategi Iraurgi, Estefanía Martinez-Chavez, Silvia Valero Rovira, Alba Bergas, Zaida Ruiz de Azua, Teresa Prim, Cristina García-Quero, Pilar Hernández Machín, Rubén Gomez-Rioja, María Pavón-Masa, María de las Mercedes Valentín-Pastrana Aguilar, Ilduara Pintos Pascual, Lucía Brieba-Plata, María Jesús Domínguez Santalla, Francisco Javier Membrillo de Novales, Raúl Galera-Martínez, Ana Lérida Urteaga, Miguel Cervero, Alberto Mangas-Moro, José Hernández Quero, Teresa Sancho Bueso, María Angustias Quesada Simón, Luz Parra-Gordo, Sofía Díaz-Carrasco, Juan Carlos Abad Almendro, Andrés Javier Ruiz Fernández, Estíbaliz Molina Iturritza, Aurea Díez-Tascón, Yale Tung-Chen, Marta Rava, Carlos Villasante, Gabriel Gaspar Alonso-Vega, Clara Cabré-Verdiell Surribas, Esther Fraile Villarejo, Aida Gutiérrez García, Ana Robustillo-Rodela, Rafael Padrós Selma, Jesús Rodríguez-Baño, Frank Perdomo-García, Lydia de la Fuente Regaño, María del Mar Arenas-Miras, Cristina Rodríguez Roca, Blanca Montero-San Martín, Gema Crespo-Sánchez, Miguel Ramírez-Verdyguer, Alberto Diaz de Santiago, Marta Díaz Menéndez, María de la Luz Padilla Salazar, Silvia Arribas-Terradillos, Sadaf Zafar Iqubal-Mirza, Isabel Rábago Lorite, Belén Estébanez, Maite Ganchegui Aguirre, André Barbosa Ventura, Estefanía Fernandez-Cerezo, Maria Eulalia Valencia, Zaira R. Palacios-Baena, Beatriz Diaz Pollan, Lidia Martín, Sara Fabra-Cadenas, José Miguel Cantero-Escribano, Carmen Busca Arenzana, Emilia Guasch-Arévalo, Virginia Fernández Espinilla, Ainhoa Urrutia Losada, Oscar Noya González, Raquel Aranega, Alejandro Rodríguez Saenz de Urturi, María Jesús Jaras Hernandez, Charbel Maroun Eid, Marta Mora Rillo, Antonio Ramos Martínez, Meritxell Ortega Montoliu, Jose María Mostaza, Sonia García Calvo, Cristina Verdú, Celia Salamanca, Cristina Cervera Acedo, Mónica Martínez, Miren Urrestarazu Larrañag, Carmen Barroso Castro, Ivo Vives-Beltrán, Lorea Arteche Eguizabal, Ana Montero, Javier Balsa Vázquez, Amparo Perez-Garcia Morillón, Alejandra Pérez García, Isabel Pérez-Tamayo, Rafael Cantón Moreno, Antonio Marín-García, Inmaculada Jarrín, Núria Trullen, Ines Fernandez-Jimenez, Guillermo Ruiz-Carrascosa, Almudena Villa Martí, Jamil Cedeño, Marcos Díez Martínez, Carlos Lahoz, Lorena De la Mora, Javier Sánchez-Lora, Ana María Martínez-Virto, Irene Sanjosé Muñiz, Adrian Peña-Hidalgo, Cristina López Mestanza, Carola Gutiérrez, Ana Laila Qasem-Moreno, Irene Salvo García, Lucía Fernández de Orueta, Jorge Parra Ruiz, Sergio Pérez Pinto, Carlos García-Mochales Fortún, Esteban García de las Heras, Patricia González Muñiz, Mario Fernández-Ruiz, Anna Ferrer Santolaria, Olga Sánchez Pernaute, Julieta Latorre, Jesús Manzanares, Miguel Angel Martinez Gallego, Helena Notario, Ángel Rodríguez-Villodres, Eva Fernández-Bretón, Encarnación Moral Escudero, Mónica Sánchez-Santiuste, Carmen Martínez Cilleros, Ricardo Fernández Roblas, María Yllescas, Eva Soria-Alcaide, Marta Arsuaga Vicente, Marta Gómez-López, Regina Cabrera-Gamero, Natalia Carrasco Fons, Diana Piñar Cabezos, Begoña Sánchez-Sánchez, Francisca Garcia-Iglesias, Raquel Marín-Baselga, Alberto Arranz Caso, Virginia Guedez-López, Lucia Boix Palop, Íñigo Gredilla Zubiría, María Hidalgo-Sánchez, Laura López-Tappero Irazábal, José Ignacio Bernardino de la Serna, Javier Queiruga, Natalia Guadalupe Barrera-López, María López-Jodar, Jorge Calderón Parra, Diego Rodríguez-Álvarez, José Molina, María Luisa Montes, Beatriz Rodríguez-Alonso, Daniel Useros Brañas, Maria Gracia Liras-Hernández, Lucía Romero-Imaz, Nieves Jaén Sánchez, Marta Segovia-Amaro, Marta Vara, Maribel Zamora Cintas, Montaña Jiménez Álvaro, Alberto Moreno Fernandez, Asunción Díaz, Jordi Mancebo Cortés, Francisco Javier De Castro Vega, Álvaro Navarro Batet, Francisco Javier Sagra, Alexandre Pérez González, Luis Castro, Isabel Barrio López, Marta Ruiz-Alguero, Silvia Ossaba-Vélez, Alberto Martín-Vega, Maria Jesus Bustinduy Odriozola, Sivia Pastor-Yvorra, Nuria Espinosa, Elena Múñez Rubio, María E García-Leoni, Sandra Rosillo, Cristina Carbonell, Iván Navas Clemente, Paula Arriola Martínez, Marta Peña, Lucía Martínez de Soto, Roberto Mora-Corcovado, Alberto Iglesias-Sigüenza, Rocío Ruíz-Hueso, Elena Alvar, Pedro Camacho, Jesús Sojo-Dorado, Remedios Alemán Valls, Ines Ponz, Esmeralda Palmier Peláez, María Arcos Rueda, Guillermo Maestro de la Calle, Ramón Pérez Tanoira, Ana Martínez Vidal, Cristina Amodeo, Marina Pacheco Martínez-Atienza, Clara Muñoz Aguirre, Felipe Villar Álvarez, Giorgina Salgueiro, Xavier Sanz Salvador, César Pérez-Romero, Beatriz Álvarez Zapatero, Nelsa González-Aguado, Robert Torres Sánchez del Arco, Enrique Míguez Rey, Merce Sirisi, Xavier Bonfill Cosp, Marta Yagüe-Barrado, Elena Pérez-Costa, Sandra Casares, Eva Estirado, Jorge Alvarez Troncoso, Cristina Martín-Carrasco, Diana Sande Llovo, Melchor Álvarez de Mon Soto, Arantzazu Mera Fidalgo, Francisco Marqués-González, Agustín Valido-Morales, Luis Alberto Nieto Fernández del Campo, Helem Haydee Vilchez, María Rivas-Carmenado, Francisco Moreno, Ignacio Fernández-Fernández, Henar Calvo Sánchez, Ana González-Cordón, Isabel Fernández-Navarro, María Simón Sacristán, Eva Jiménez-González de Buitrago, M. Muñoz, María Laplaza-González, Rosa de Miguel Buckley, Marta Redondo-Gutierrez, Paula Santibáñez Sáenz, Raquel Martínez Goñi, Marta Rico Rodríguez, Carlos Toro-Rueda, Francisco Arnalich, Ana Santiago-Recuerda, Clara Soto Abanedes, María Dolores Herrero Mendoza, Aquilino Sanchez Purificación, Diego Franch Llasat, María Velasco Arribas, Alejandro Martín-Quirós, Jorge Alba Fernández, Elena Ramírez, Amparo López-Bernus, Marta Alvarado, María Rexach Fumaña, Martín Pilares-Barco, Carmen Liébana Martos, Yolanda Martínez Martínez, Nicolas Merchante Gutiérrez, Maria José Asensio, Ianire Virto Peña, Lucía Mejuto-Illade, María Angeles Martinez-López, Pilar López-Pirez, Alejandro Suárez, Cristóbal Manuel Rodríguez Leal, Sara Garcia-Bellido Ruiz, Jorge Guisández Martín, Lucia Cachafeiro, Pedro Gil Divasson, Almudena Quintás-Viqueira, Laura Currás-Sánchez, Alverio Seiz-Martinez, Mario Ruiz-Bastián, Juan José Menéndez, Jorge Orihuela Martín, María Dolores Nieto Martín, Cristina Arévalo, Rebeca Marinas, Susana Casas Rodríguez, Zuriñe Ortiz de Zárate Ibarra, Yolanda Posada Franco, Joan Gómez-Junyent, Ana María Garijo Saiz, Marina Alguacil-Guillén, Ana Alguacil, Esther Aznar Muñoz, Sara Bañón Escandell, Juan Salillas Hernando, Chiara Fanciulli, Rosa Gómez-Gil, Francisco García-Río, Moncef Belhassen-García, Belén Gutierrez Sancerni, Sonia Vega Molpeceres, Inés Suárez-García, Leire Pérez-Latorre, Elena Chamarro Martí, Carmen Rosario Herrero Gil, Belén Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez, Tatiana Mata Forte, Francesca Sánchez Martínez, Lucía Ramos Merino, Santiago Yus, Mº Ángeles Marcos, Susana Martínez-Álvarez, Alexy Inciarte, Manuel Quintana-Díaz, Lucía Serrá, Belén Alejos, Guillem Policarpo Torres, José Román Muñoz del Rey, Irene Blanco-Bartolomé, Alberto Bahamonde Carrasco, Victoria Hernando, Jhon Rojas, David Roa, María Ángeles Garcinuño, Aránzazu Villasante de la Puente, Patricia Pérez-Palacios, Jesús Ruiz Aragón, Valvanera Ibarra Cucalón, Lucía Ortega Enciso, Ismail Zakariya-Yousef Breval, Jorge Navarro López, Gema Barbeito Castiñeiras, Clara Sala Jofre, Nora Molina Torres, Manuel Poyato, Inmaculada Poquet Catala, Virginia Pomar Solchaga, María Pilar Romero-Gómez, Clara Hernández, Helena Mozas Moriñigo, Mercedes Guillamón Sánchez, Zineb Karroud, Arianna Catino, Violeta Ramos Sesma, Santos del Campo, Pilar Fernández-Calle, Ana Fernández Cruz, Fernando Salvador, Rosa Mayayo-Alvira, Pilar Barco Núñez, Ana Isabel Peláez Ballesta, Silvia Suárez Diaz, Beatriz María Sanjuan, Nora Izko Gartzia, Teresa Aldámiz-Echevarría, Cecilia Tortajada Alamilla, Pau Bosch-Nicolau, María del Mar Alonso Socas, Sonia Calzado Isbert, Jose R. Arribas, Juan Fernández-Lahera, Elizabet Petkova Saiz, Eva Jiménez, Gabriela Abelenda-Alonso, Alba Ribera Puig, Pascual Sanabria-Carretero, Sara Rodrigo González, Irene Díaz de la Torre, Tamara Manso Gómez, Carmen Sáez Barberá, Roi Suárez Gil, Paloma García-Clemente, Héctor Meijide Míguez, Elsa Izquierdo-García, Josune Goikoetxea Agirre, Olalla Martínez Macia, Jesús Santos González, Guillermo Jiménez Álvarez, Cristina Marcelo-Calvo, Javier Coy Coy, Isabel Arenas-Berenguer, Julio García Rodríguez, Natalia Yustas-Benitez, Sarai Quirós-Fernández, Marina Noguerol-Gutiérrez, María Adalid Moll, Iván Bloise-Sánchez, Mario José Rodriguez Dominguez, Elena Salamanca, Francisco Mora Gómez, Lucio García-Fraile, Pablo Millán, C Gutiérrez, Montserrat Rodríguez, José Antonio Oteo Revuelta, Joseba Portu Zapirain, Cristina Moreno, Irene Carrillo Acosta, Jorge Calvo, Ana Mariño Callejo, David Romero-Ribate, Blanca Alonso, Elena Muñoz del Val, Elena Resino Foz, Olaia Rodriguez-Fraga, Miguel Villamarín, Irene Amores-Hernández, Laura Muñoz López, Esther García Almodóvar, Ismael Casares Guerrero, Angélica Villanueva-Freije, Nuria Parra Arribas, Montserrat Sanmarti Vilamala, Macarena Lerín-Baratas, Mercedes Castro-Martínez, Melissa Carreres Candela, Lucia Suárez Pérez, Jose Manuel Iturzaeta-Sánchez, Thamires Silva-Freire, José Antonio Peregrina, María Luisa Machado Sicilia, Sergio Zurita, Daniel Molina Morant, Olga González-Peña, Fernando Lázaro-Perona, Paloma Oliver-Saez, Beatriz Mestre-Gómez, Luis Díaz Díez Picazo, Silvia García-Bujalance, Francisco Rodríguez Gómez, Pere Comas Casanova, Carlos Ruiz Martínez, Alberto Delgado-Iribarren, Berta Alonso-González, Isabel Moreno-Parra, Teresa Gómez-Ballesteros, Araceli Menéndez, Jose Manuel Añón, Ruth Jorge García, Jonathan Cámara Fernández, Miguel Górgolas Hernández-Mora, Itziar Diego Yagüe, Miriam Latorre-Millán, Covadonga Morcate Fernández, M. Río-García, Elisabet Lerma-Chippirraz, Carmen Yllera Gutiérrez, Francesc Albertí, Eva Flores, Carmen R. Uña Orejón, Patricio González-Pizarro, Neila Rodriguez-Roca, Miguel Fernández-Huerta, Inés Ferrer Ortiz, María José Blanco Vidal, Juan Pablo Avilés, Alicia Lorenzo Hernández, Mireia Puig Campmany, José Bravo-Ferrer, Gonzalo Martínez-Alés, Pablo Marguenda Contreras, M. Sánchez, Antonio García Pardo, Yolanda Meije, Francisco Tejerina, Carolina Hernández Carballo, Victoria Moreno, Daniel Laorden-Escudero, Ana Barrios Blandino, Alexia Costanza Espiño Álvarez, Ana Milagro Beamonte, Jerónimo Pachón, S San José-Villar, Marta Morando, María del Carmen Navarro Sáez, Rodolfo Álvarez-Sala Walther, Jon Ugalde Espiñeira, Fernando De la Calle Prieto, Nuria Fernández, Iván Pelegrín Senent, Alba Rueda López, Cristina Schüffelmann, Marcelino Hayek Peraza, Laura Labajo-Montero, Angel Robles Marhuenda, Pilar Durán, Ana Esteban-Romero, María Rosa Oltra Sempere, Ana Cosmen Sánchez, Alex Smithson Amat, Margarita Ramírez-Schacke, Marco Antonio Sempere Alcocer, Paloma Carrera-Vázquez, M Miarons, Teresa García Delange, Amelia Rodriguez-Mariblanca, Eva Talavera García, Roberto Vates Gómez, Óscar Sanz Peláez, José María Muñoz-Ramón, José Luis García Fogeda, Isabel Arroyo-Rico, Verónica Cano Llorente, Fernando González-Romo, Alberto Alonso-Babarro, Fátima Brañas, Fabricio Iannuccelli, Pilar Álvarez Padín, Luis Metola Sacristán, Vicente Boix, Víctor Hontañón, Juan Berenguer, José Luís Del Pozo León, Patricia Sorní Moreno, Maria Isabel Torres, Rafael Mican Rivera, Amparo Blasco Claramunt, Carmen Ardanuy, Aychel Elena Roura Piloto, María Ángeles Molina, Isabel Asschert Agüero, Julía Alvárez del Vayo, Consuelo García-Sánchez, Begoña Reche-Martínez, Guillermo Cuervo, Carlos Iniesta, María Antonia Gómez-Mendieta, Ana María Noblejas Mozo, Andres Bartrina-Tarrio, Carmen De la Higuera Arranz, Yeray Untoria Tabares, Andrés Enrique Suárez-Plaza, Jesús Frías, Paloma López-Arévalo, Irene María Llorente-Cortijo, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), and Fundación SEIMC-GESIDA
Subjects: Male, Prognostic variable, medicine.medical_specialty, Databases, Factual, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Cohort Studies, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Internal medicine, Humans, Medicine, 030212 general & internal medicine, Aged, Retrospective Studies, Models, Statistical, SARS-CoV-2, business.industry, Mortality rate, COVID-19, Retrospective cohort study, Articles, Middle Aged, Prognosis, medicine.disease, Phenotype, Hospitals, Hospitalization, Logistic Models, Infectious Diseases, Spain, Cohort, Female, Lymphocytopenia, business, Cohort study
Abstract: REIPI-SEIMC COVID-19 group and COVID@HULP group., [Background] The clinical presentation of COVID-19 in patients admitted to hospital is heterogeneous. We aimed to determine whether clinical phenotypes of patients with COVID-19 can be derived from clinical data, to assess the reproducibility of these phenotypes and correlation with prognosis, and to derive and validate a simplified probabilistic model for phenotype assignment. Phenotype identification was not primarily intended as a predictive tool for mortality., [Methods] In this study, we used data from two cohorts: the COVID-19@Spain cohort, a retrospective cohort including 4035 consecutive adult patients admitted to 127 hospitals in Spain with COVID-19 between Feb 2 and March 17, 2020, and the COVID-19@HULP cohort, including 2226 consecutive adult patients admitted to a teaching hospital in Madrid between Feb 25 and April 19, 2020. The COVID-19@Spain cohort was divided into a derivation cohort, comprising 2667 randomly selected patients, and an internal validation cohort, comprising the remaining 1368 patients. The COVID-19@HULP cohort was used as an external validation cohort. A probabilistic model for phenotype assignment was derived in the derivation cohort using multinomial logistic regression and validated in the internal validation cohort. The model was also applied to the external validation cohort. 30-day mortality and other prognostic variables were assessed in the derived phenotypes and in the phenotypes assigned by the probabilistic model., [Findings] Three distinct phenotypes were derived in the derivation cohort (n=2667)—phenotype A (516 [19%] patients), phenotype B (1955 [73%]) and phenotype C (196 [7%])—and reproduced in the internal validation cohort (n=1368)—phenotype A (233 [17%] patients), phenotype B (1019 [74%]), and phenotype C (116 [8%]). Patients with phenotype A were younger, were less frequently male, had mild viral symptoms, and had normal inflammatory parameters. Patients with phenotype B included more patients with obesity, lymphocytopenia, and moderately elevated inflammatory parameters. Patients with phenotype C included older patients with more comorbidities and even higher inflammatory parameters than phenotype B. We developed a simplified probabilistic model (validated in the internal validation cohort) for phenotype assignment, including 16 variables. In the derivation cohort, 30-day mortality rates were 2·5% (95% CI 1·4–4·3) for patients with phenotype A, 30·5% (28·5–32·6) for patients with phenotype B, and 60·7% (53·7–67·2) for patients with phenotype C (log-rank test p, [Interpretation] Patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 can be classified into three phenotypes that correlate with mortality. We developed and validated a simplified tool for the probabilistic assignment of patients into phenotypes. These results might help to better classify patients for clinical management, but the pathophysiological mechanisms of the phenotypes must be investigated., [Funding] Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, and Fundación SEIMC/GeSIDA., Funding: Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, and Fundación SEIMC/GeSIDA.
Published: 2021

27. Usefulness of the COVID-GRAM and CURB-65 scores for predicting severity in patients with COVID-19

Author: Claudia González-Rico, Marta Fernández Sampedro, José M. Cifrián, Diego Ferrer, José M. Olmos, Manuel Gutiérrez Cuadra, Víctor Mora, María Carmen Fariñas, Ana Arnaiz, Borja Suberviola, Francisco Arnaiz de las Revillas, Carlos Armiñanzas, Jorge Calvo, Maite Latorre, and Universidad de Cantabria
Subjects: Adult, Male, 0301 basic medicine, Microbiology (medical), medicine.medical_specialty, 030106 microbiology, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216, Severity of Illness Index, Article, law.invention, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, law, Internal medicine, Severity of illness, medicine, Humans, 030212 general & internal medicine, Aged, Retrospective Studies, COVID, Severity score, CURB-65, Univariate analysis, Receiver operating characteristic, SARS-CoV-2, business.industry, Area under the curve, COVID-19, General Medicine, Odds ratio, COVID-GRAM, Prognosis, Intensive care unit, Confidence interval, Coronavirus, Infectious Diseases, Female, business
Abstract: Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the usefulness of COVID-GRAM and CURB-65 scores as predictors of the severity of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in Caucasian patients. Methods: This was a retrospective observational study including all adults with SARS-CoV-2 infection admitted to Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla from February to May 2020. Patients were stratified according to COVID-GRAM and CURB-65 scores as being at low-medium or high risk of critical illness. Univariate analysis, multivariate logistic regression models, receiver operating characteristic curve, and area under the curve (AUC) were calculated. Results: A total of 523 patients were included (51.8% male, 48.2% female; mean age 65.63 years (standard deviation 17.89 years)), of whom 110 (21%) presented a critical illness (intensive care unit admission 10.3%, 30-day mortality 13.8%). According to the COVID-GRAM score, 122 (23.33%) patients were classified as high risk; 197 (37.7%) presented a CURB-65 score ?2. A significantly greater proportion of patients with critical illness had a high COVID-GRAM score (64.5% vs 30.5%; P < 0.001). The COVID-GRAM score emerged as an independent predictor of critical illness (odds ratio 9.40, 95% confidence interval 5.51-16.04; P < 0.001), with an AUC of 0.779. A high COVID-GRAM score showed an AUC of 0.88 for the prediction of 30-day mortality, while a CURB-65 ?2 showed an AUC of 0.83. Conclusions: The COVID-GRAM score may be a useful tool for evaluating the risk of critical illness in Caucasian patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection. The CURB-65 score could be considered as an alternative.
Published: 2021

28. A Contemporary Picture of Enterococcal Endocarditis

Author: Juan M. Pericàs, Jaume Llopis, Patricia Muñoz, Juan Gálvez-Acebal, Martha Kestler, Maricela Valerio, Marta Hernández-Meneses, Miguel Á. Goenaga, Manuel Cobo-Belaustegui, Miguel Montejo, Guillermo Ojeda-Burgos, M. Dolores Sousa-Regueiro, Arístides de Alarcón, Antonio Ramos-Martínez, José M. Miró, Fernando Fernández Sánchez, Mariam Noureddine, Gabriel Rosas, Javier de la Torre Lima, Roberto Blanco, María Victoria Boado, Marta Campaña Lázaro, Alejandro Crespo, Josune Goikoetxea, José Ramón Iruretagoyena, Josu Irurzun Zuazabal, Leire López-Soria, Javier Nieto, David Rodrigo, Regino Rodríguez, Yolanda Vitoria, Roberto Voces, Ma Victoria García López, Radka Ivanova Georgieva, Guillermo Ojeda, Isabel Rodríguez Bailón, Josefa Ruiz Morales, Ana María Cuende, Tomás Echeverría, Ana Fuerte, Eduardo Gaminde, Miguel Ángel Goenaga, Pedro Idígoras, José Antonio Iribarren, Alberto Izaguirre Yarza, Xabier Kortajarena Urkola, Carlos Reviejo, Rafael Carrasco, Vicente Climent, Patricio Llamas, Esperanza Merino, Joaquín Plazas, Sergio Reus, Nemesio Álvarez, José María Bravo-Ferrer, Laura Castelo, José Cuenca, Pedro Llinares, Enrique Miguez Rey, María Rodríguez Mayo, Efrén Sánchez, Dolores Sousa Regueiro, Francisco Javier Martínez, Ma del Mar Alonso, Beatriz Castro, Dácil García Rosado, Ma del Carmen Durán, Ma Antonia Miguel Gómez, Juan Lacalzada, Ibrahim Nassar, Antonio Plata Ciezar, José Ma Reguera Iglesias, Víctor Asensi Álvarez, Carlos Costas, Jesús de la Hera, Jonnathan Fernández Suárez, Lisardo Iglesias Fraile, Víctor León Arguero, José López Menéndez, Pilar Mencia Bajo, Carlos Morales, Alfonso Moreno Torrico, Carmen Palomo, Begoña Paya Martínez, Ángeles Rodríguez Esteban, Raquel Rodríguez García, Mauricio Telenti Asensio, Manuel Almela, Juan Ambrosioni, Manuel Azqueta, Mercè Brunet, Marta Bodro, Ramón Cartañá, Carlos Falces, Guillermina Fita, David Fuster, Cristina García de la Mària, Delia García-Pares, Jaume Llopis Pérez, Francesc Marco, Asunción Moreno, David Nicolás, Salvador Ninot, Eduardo Quintana, Carlos Paré, Daniel Pereda, Juan M. Pericás, José L. Pomar, José Ramírez, Irene Rovira, Elena Sandoval, Marta Sitges, Dolors Soy, Adrián Téllez, José M. Tolosana, Bárbara Vidal, Jordi Vila, Iván Adán, Javier Bermejo, Emilio Bouza, Daniel Celemín, Gregorio Cuerpo Caballero, Antonia Delgado Montero, Ana García Mansilla, Ma Eugenia García Leoni, Víctor González Ramallo, Martha Kestler Hernández, Amaia Mari Hualde, Mercedes Marín, Manuel Martínez-Sellés, Cristina Rincón, Hugo Rodríguez-Abella, Marta Rodríguez-Créixems, Blanca Pinilla, Ángel Pinto, Pilar Vázquez, Eduardo Verde Moreno, Isabel Antorrena, Belén Loeches, Alejandro Martín Quirós, Mar Moreno, Ulises Ramírez, Verónica Rial Bastón, María Romero, Araceli Saldaña, Jesús Agüero Balbín, Carlos Armiñanzas Castillo, Ana Arnaiz, Francisco Arnaiz de las Revillas, Manuel Cobo Belaustegui, María Carmen Fariñas, Concepción Fariñas-Álvarez, Rubén Gómez Izquierdo, Iván García, Claudia González Rico, Manuel Gutiérrez-Cuadra, José Gutiérrez Díez, Marcos Pajarón, José Antonio Parra, Ramón Teira, Jesús Zarauza, Jorge Calderón Parra, Marta Cobo, Fernando Domínguez, Alberto Fortaleza, Pablo García Pavía, Jesús González, Ana Fernández Cruz, Elena Múñez, Antonio Ramos, Isabel Sánchez Romero, Tomasa Centella, José Manuel Hermida, José Luis Moya, Pilar Martín-Dávila, Enrique Navas, Enrique Oliva, Alejandro del Río, Jorge Rodríguez-Roda Stuart, Soledad Ruiz, Carmen Hidalgo Tenorio, Manuel Almendro Delia, Omar Araji, José Miguel Barquero, Román Calvo Jambrina, Marina de Cueto, Juan Gálvez Acebal, Irene Méndez, Isabel Morales, Luis Eduardo López-Cortés, Emilio García, Juan Luis Haro, José Antonio Lepe, Francisco López, Rafael Luque, Luis Javier Alonso, Pedro Azcárate, José Manuel Azcona Gutiérrez, José Ramón Blanco, Antonio Cabrera Villegas, Lara García-Álvarez, José Antonio Oteo, Mercedes Sanz, Natividad de Benito, Mercé Gurguí, Cristina Pacho, Roser Pericas, Guillem Pons, M. Álvarez, A.L. Fernández, Amparo Martínez, A. Prieto, Benito Regueiro, E. Tijeira, Marino Vega, Andrés Canut Blasco, José Cordo Mollar, Juan Carlos Gainzarain Arana, Oscar García Uriarte, Alejandro Martín López, Zuriñe Ortiz de Zárate, José Antonio Urturi Matos, García-Domínguez Gloria, Sánchez-Porto Antonio, José Ma Arribas Leal, Elisa García Vázquez, Alicia Hernández Torres, Ana Blázquez, Gonzalo de la Morena Valenzuela, Ángel Alonso, Javier Aramburu, Felicitas Elena Calvo, Anai Moreno Rodríguez, Paola Tarabini-Castellani, Eva Heredero Gálvez, Carolina Maicas Bellido, José Largo Pau, Ma Antonia Sepúlveda, Pilar Toledano Sierra, Sadaf Zafar Iqbal-Mirza, Eva Cascales Alcolea, Ivan Keituqwa Yañez, Julián Navarro Martínez, Ana Peláez Ballesta, Eduardo Moreno Escobar, Alejandro Peña Monje, Valme Sánchez Cabrera, David Vinuesa García, María Arrizabalaga Asenjo, Carmen Cifuentes Luna, Juana Núñez Morcillo, Ma Cruz Pérez Seco, Aroa Villoslada Gelabert, Carmen Aured Guallar, Nuria Fernández Abad, Pilar García Mangas, Marta Matamala Adell, Ma Pilar Palacián Ruiz, Juan Carlos Porres, Begoña Alcaraz Vidal, Nazaret Cobos Trigueros, María Jesús Del Amor Espín, José Antonio Giner Caro, Roberto Jiménez Sánchez, Amaya Jimeno Almazán, Alejandro Ortín Freire, Monserrat Viqueira González, Pere Pericás Ramis, Ma Ángels Ribas Blanco, Enrique Ruiz de Gopegui Bordes, Laura Vidal Bonet, Ma Carmen Bellón Munera, Elena Escribano Garaizabal, Antonia Tercero Martínez, Juan Carlos Segura Luque, Cristina Badía, Lucía Boix Palop, Mariona Xercavins, Sónia Ibars, Eloy Gómez Nebreda, Ibalia Horcajada Herrera, Irene Menduiña Gallego, Héctor Marrero Santiago, Isabel de Miguel Martínez, Elena Pisos Álamo, Carmen Díaz Pedroche, Fernando Chaves, Santiago de Cossío, Francisco López Medrano, Ma Jesús López, Javier Solera, Jorge Solís, Carmen Ardanuy, Guillermo Cuervo Requena, Sara Grillo, and Alejandro Ruiz Majoral
Subjects: Aortic valve, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, relapses, Enterococci, Epidemiology, medicine.medical_treatment, heart failure, Heart failure, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Logistic regression, Prosthesis, prosthetic valves, Cohort Studies, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, enterococci, Internal medicine, Post-hoc analysis, medicine, Enterococcus faecalis, Endocarditis, Humans, 030212 general & internal medicine, Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections, Aged, Bacteria, business.industry, infective endocarditis, ComputingMilieux_PERSONALCOMPUTING, Endocarditis, Bacterial, Middle Aged, Prosthetic valves, medicine.disease, medicine.anatomical_structure, Spain, Infective endocarditis, Cohort, epidemiology, Female, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business, Relapses
Abstract: GAMES Investigators., [Background] Enterococcal endocarditis (EE) is a growing entity in Western countries. However, quality data from large studies is lacking., [Objectives] The purpose of this study was to describe the characteristics and analyze the prognostic factors of EE in the GAMES cohort., [Methods] This was a post hoc analysis of a prospectively collected cohort of patients from 35 Spanish centers from 2008 to 2016. Characteristics and outcomes of 516 cases of EE were compared with those of 3,308 cases of nonenterococcal endocarditis (NEE). Logistic regression and Cox proportional hazards regression analysis were performed to investigate risk factors for in-hospital and 1-year mortality, as well as relapses., [Results] Patients with EE were significantly older; more frequently presented chronic lung disease, chronic heart failure, prior endocarditis, and degenerative valve disease; and had higher median age-adjusted Charlson score. EE more frequently involved the aortic valve and prosthesis (64.3% vs. 46.7%; p < 0.001; and 35.9% vs. 28.9%; p = 0.002, respectively) but less frequently pacemakers/defibrillators (1.5% vs. 10.5%; p < 0.001), and showed higher rates of acute heart failure (45% vs. 38.3%; p = 0.005). Cardiac surgery was less frequently performed in EE (40.7% vs. 45.9%; p = 0.024). No differences in in-hospital and 1-year mortality were found, whereas relapses were significantly higher in EE (3.5% vs. 1.7%; p = 0.035). Increasing Charlson score, LogEuroSCORE, acute heart failure, septic shock, and paravalvular complications were risk factors for mortality, whereas prior endocarditis was protective and persistent bacteremia constituted the sole risk factor for relapse., [Conclusions] Besides other baseline and clinical differences, EE more frequently affects prosthetic valves and less frequently pacemakers/defibrillators. EE presents higher rates of relapse than NEE.
Published: 2020

29. Gentamicin may have no effect on mortality of staphylococcal prosthetic valve endocarditis

Author: Antonio Ramos-Martínez, Alejandro Muñoz Serrano, Arístides de Alarcón González, Patricia Muñoz, Ana Fernández-Cruz, Maricela Valerio, María Carmen Fariñas, Manuel Gutiérrez-Cuadra, José Ma Miró, Josefa Ruiz-Morales, Dolores Sousa-Regueiro, José Miguel Montejo, Juan Gálvez-Acebal, Carmen HidalgoTenorio, Fernando Domínguez, Fernando Fernández Sánchez, Mariam Noureddine, Gabriel Rosas, Javier de la Torre Lima, José Aramendi, Elena Bereciartua, Roberto Blanco, María Victoria Boado, Itxasne Cabezón Estébanez, Marta Campaña Lázaro, Josune Goikoetxea, Juan José Goiti, José Ramón Iruretagoyena, Josu Irurzun Zuazabal, Leire López-Soria, Miguel Montejo, Javier Nieto, David Rodríguez, Regino Rodríguez, Roberto Voces, Ma Victoria García López, Radka Ivanova Georgieva, Guillermo Ojeda, Isabel Rodríguez Bailón, Josefa Ruiz Morales, Ana María Cuende, Tomás Echeverría, Ana Fuerte, Eduardo Gaminde, Miguel Ángel Goenaga, Pedro Idígoras, José Antonio Iribarren, Alberto Izaguirre Yarza, Xabier Kortajarena Urkola, Carlos Reviejo, Rafael Carrasco, Vicente Climent, Patricio Llamas, Esperanza Merino, Joaquín Plazas, Sergio Reus, Nemesio Álvarez, José María Bravo-Ferrer, Laura Castelo, José Cuenca, Pedro Llinares, Enrique Miguez Rey, María Rodríguez Mayo, Efrén Sánchez, Dolores Sousa Regueiro, Francisco Javier Martínez, Ma del Mar Alonso, Beatriz Castro, Dácil García Rosado, Ma del Carmen Durán, Ma Antonia Miguel Gómez, Juan Lacalzada, Ibrahim Nassar, Antonio Plata Ciezar, José Ma Reguera Iglesias, Víctor Asensi Álvarez, Carlos Costas, Jesús de la Hera, Jonnathan Fernández Suárez, Lisardo Iglesias Fraile, Víctor León Arguero, José López Menéndez, Pilar Mencia Bajo, Carlos Morales, Alfonso Moreno Torrico, Carmen Palomo, Begoña Paya Martínez, Ángeles Rodríguez Esteban, Raquel Rodríguez García, Mauricio Telenti Asensio, Manuel Almela, Juan Ambrosioni, Manuel Azqueta, Mercè Brunet, Marta Bodro, Ramón Cartañá, Carlos Falces, Guillermina Fita, David Fuster, Cristina García de la Mària, Marta Hernández-Meneses, Jaume Llopis Pérez, Francesc Marco, José M. Miró, Asunción Moreno, David Nicolás, Salvador Ninot, Eduardo Quintana, Carlos Paré, Daniel Pereda, Juan M. Pericás, José L. Pomar, José Ramírez, Irene Rovira, Elena Sandoval, Marta Sitges, Dolors Soy, Adrián Téllez, José M. Tolosana, Bárbara Vidal, Jordi Vila, Iván Adán, Javier Bermejo, Emilio Bouza, Gregorio Cuerpo Caballero, Ana Fernández Cruz, Ma Eugenia García Leoni, Víctor González Ramallo, Martha Kestler Hernández, Mercedes Marín, Manuel Martínez-Sellés, Ma Cruz Menárguez, Cristina Rincón, Hugo Rodríguez-Abella, Marta Rodríguez-Créixems, Blanca Pinilla, Ángel Pinto, Pilar Vázquez, Eduardo Verde Moreno, Isabel Antorrena, Belén Loeches, Alejandro Martín Quirós, Mar Moreno, Ulises Ramírez, Verónica Rial Bastón, María Romero, Araceli Saldaña, Jesús Agüero Balbín, Carlos Armiñanzas Castillo, Ana Arnaiz, Francisco Arnaiz de las Revillas, Manuel Cobo Belaustegui, Concepción Fariñas-Álvarez, Rubén Gómez Izquierdo, Iván García, Claudia González Rico, José Gutiérrez Díez, Marcos Pajarón, José Antonio Parra, Ramón Teira, Jesús Zarauza, Pablo García Pavíaz, Jesús Gonzálezz, Beatriz Ordenz, Antonio Ramosz, Tomasa Centella, José Manuel Hermida, José Luis Moya, Pilar Martín-Dávila, Enrique Navas, Enrique Oliva, Alejandro del Río, Soledad Ruiz, Carmen Hidalgo Tenorio, Manuel Almendro Delia, Omar Araji, José Miguel Barquero, Román Calvo Jambrina, Marina de Cueto, Juan Gálvez Acebal, Irene Méndez, Isabel Morales, Luis Eduardo López-Cortés, Arístides de Alarcón, Emilio García, Juan Luis Haro, José Antonio Lepe, Francisco López, Rafael Luque, Luis Javier Alonso, Pedro Azcárate, José Manuel Azcona Gutiérrez, José Ramón Blanco, Lara García-Álvarez, José Antonio Oteo, Mercedes Sanz, Natividad de Benito, Mercé Gurguí, Cristina Pacho, Roser Pericas, Guillem Pons, M. Álvarez, A.L. Fernández, Amparo Martínez, A. Prieto, Benito Regueiro, E. Tijeira, Marino Vega, Andrés Canut Blasco, José Cordo Mollar, Juan Carlos Gainzarain Arana, Oscar García Uriarte, Alejandro Martín López, Zuriñe Ortiz de Zárate, José Antonio Urturi Matos, Gloria García Domínguez, Antonio Sánchez-Porto, José Ma Arribas Leal, Elisa García Vázquez, Alicia Hernández Torres, Ana Blázquez, Gonzalo de la Morena Valenzuela, Ángel Alonso, Javier Aramburu, Felicitas Elena Calvo, Anai Moreno Rodríguez, Paola Tarabini-Castellani, Eva Heredero Gálvez, Carolina Maicas Bellido, José Largo Pau, Ma Antonia Sepúlveda, Pilar Toledano Sierra, Sadaf Zafar Iqbal-Mirza, Eva Cascales Alcolea, Pilar Egea Serrano, José Joaquín Hernández Roca, Ivan Keituqwa Yañez, Ana Peláez Ballesta, Víctor Soriano, Eduardo Moreno Escobar, Alejandro Peña Monje, Valme Sánchez Cabrera, David Vinuesa García, María Arrizabalaga Asenjo, Carmen Cifuentes Luna, Juana Núñez Morcillo, Ma Cruz Pérez Seco, Aroa Villoslada Gelabert, Carmen Aured Guallar, Nuria Fernández Abad, Pilar García Mangas, Marta Matamala Adell, Ma Pilar Palacián Ruiz, and Juan Carlos Porres
Subjects: Male, 0301 basic medicine, Microbiology (medical), Staphylococcus aureus, medicine.medical_specialty, Prosthesis-Related Infections, 030106 microbiology, medicine.disease_cause, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Cloxacillin, Vancomycin, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, Endocarditis, Pharmacology (medical), Prospective Studies, Renal Insufficiency, 030212 general & internal medicine, Aged, Heart Failure, business.industry, Endocarditis, Bacterial, Middle Aged, Staphylococcal Infections, medicine.disease, Anti-Bacterial Agents, Regimen, Infectious Diseases, Heart Valve Prosthesis, Multivariate Analysis, Female, Gentamicin, Gentamicins, Rifampin, business, Complication, Rifampicin, medicine.drug
Abstract: Purpose: To analyze the influence of adding gentamicin to a regimen consisting of β-lactam or vancomycin plus rifampicin on survival in patients suffering from Staphylococcal prosthetic valve endocarditis (SPVE). Methods: From January 2008 to September 2016, 334 patients with definite SPVE were attended in the participating hospitals. Ninety-four patients (28.1%) received treatment based on β-lactam or vancomycin plus rifampicin and were included in the study. Variables were analyzed which related to patient survival during admission, including having received treatment with gentamicin. Results: Seventy-seven (81.9%) were treated with cloxacillin (or vancomycin) plus rifampicin plus gentamicin, and 17 patients (18.1%) received the same regimen without gentamicin. The causative microorganism was Staphylococcus aureus in 40 cases (42.6%) and coagulase-negative staphylococci in 54 cases (57.4%). Overall, 40 patients (42.6%) died during hospital admission, 33 patients (42.9%) in the group receiving gentamicin and 7 patients in the group that did not (41.2%, P = 0.899). Worsening renal function was observed in 42 patients (54.5%) who received gentamicin and in 9 patients (52.9%) who did not (p = 0.904). Heart failure as a complication of endocarditis (OR: 4.58; CI 95%: 1.84–11.42) and not performing surgery when indicated (OR: 2.68; CI 95%: 1.03–6.94) increased mortality. Gentamicin administration remained unrelated to mortality (OR: 1.001; CI 95%: 0.29–3.38) in the multivariable analysis. Conclusions: The addition of gentamicin to a regimen containing vancomycin or cloxacillin plus rifampicin in SPVE was not associated to better outcome.
Published: 2018
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30. Innate and Adaptive Immune Assessment at Admission to Predict Clinical Outcome in COVID-19 Patients

Author: Marta Alonso-Peña, Alejandra Comins-Boo, Francisco Arnaiz de las Revillas, Patricia Lamadrid-Perojo, José M. Olmos, David San Segundo, María Carmen Fariñas, Juan Irure-Ventura, Claudia González-Rico, Marcos López-Hoyos, and Universidad de Cantabria
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, QH301-705.5, Adaptive immunity, Medicine (miscellaneous), CD38, Article, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, predictive model, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Immune system, Immunological profile, medicine, Flow cytometry, Biology (General), immunological profile, innate immunity, Innate immunity, Innate immune system, biology, SARS-CoV-2, business.industry, flow cytometry, Innate lymphoid cell, adaptive immunity, Acquired immune system, Neutrophilia, Ferritin, 030104 developmental biology, Predictive model, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Immunology, biology.protein, medicine.symptom, Antibody, business
Abstract: During the COVID-19 pandemic, many studies have been carried out to evaluate different immune system components to search for prognostic biomarkers of the disease. A broad multiparametric antibody panel of cellular and humoral components of the innate and the adaptative immune response in patients with active SARS-CoV-2 infection has been evaluated in this study. A total of 155 patients were studied at admission into our center and were categorized according to the requirement of oxygen therapy as mild or severe (the latter being those with the requirement). The patients with severe disease were older and had high ferritin, D-dimer, C-reactive protein, troponin, interleukin-6 (IL-6) levels, and neutrophilia with lymphopenia at admission. Moreover, the patients with mild symptoms had significantly increased circulating non-classical monocytes, innate lymphoid cells, and regulatory NK cells. In contrast, severe patients had a low frequency of Th1 and regulatory T cells with increased activated and exhausted CD8 phenotype (CD8+CD38+HLADR+ and CD8+CD27-CD28-, respectively). The predictive model included age, ferritin, D-dimer, lymph counts, C4, CD8+CD27-CD28-, and non-classical monocytes in the logistic regression analysis. The model predicted severity with an area under the curve of 78%. Both innate and adaptive immune parameters could be considered potential predictive biomarkers of the prognosis of COVID-19 disease. Funding: This work was partially supported by the Cantabrian Government, grant number 2020UIC22-PUB-001, and by Instituto de Salud Carlos III, grant number COV20/00170.
Published: 2021
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31. GNP-GAPDH1-22 nanovaccines prevent neonatal listeriosis by blocking microglial apoptosis and bacterial dissemination

Author: Sonsoles Yañez-Diaz, Fernando Rivera, Hector Teran-Navarro, Javier Gómez-Román, Isabel García, Claudia González-Rico, Carmen Alvarez-Dominguez, Manuel Fresno, Soledad Penadés, Javier Freire, Marco Marradi, David Salcines-Cuevas, Carmen Punzón, Elisabet Frande-Cabanes, Ana Castañeda-Sampedro, Ricardo Calderon-Gonzalez, M. Carmen Fariñas, José María Marimón, Mirian Alkorta-Gurrutxaga, Aida San Nicolas-Gomez, UAM. Departamento de Biología Molecular, Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (CBM), and Universidad de Cantabria
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Tumor necrosis factor signaling, medicine.medical_treatment, 030106 microbiology, Apoptosis, Nanovaccines, medicine.disease_cause, Immune respons, 03 medical and health sciences, Immune system, Listeria monocytogenes, Immunity, medicine, Neonatal listeriosis, Immune response, Microglia, Immunology and Microbiology Section, apoptosis, microglia, nanovaccines, neonatal listeriosis, tumor necrosis factor signaling, business.industry, Interleukin, Biología y Biomedicina / Biología, 3. Good health, 030104 developmental biology, Cytokine, medicine.anatomical_structure, Oncology, Immunology, Tumor necrosis factor alpha, business, Neonatal Listeriosis
Abstract: Clinical cases of neonatal listeriosis are associated with brain disease and fetal loss due to complications in early or late pregnancy, which suggests that microglial function is altered. This is believed to be the first study to link microglial apoptosis with neonatal listeriosis and listeriosis-associated brain disease, and to propose a new nanovaccine formulation that reverses all effects of listeriosis and confers Listeria monocytogenes (LM)-specific immunity. We examined clinical cases of neonatal listeriosis in 2013–2015 and defined two useful prognostic immune biomarkers to design listeriosis vaccines: high anti-GAPDH1-22 titres and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)/ interleukin (IL)-6 ratios. Therefore, we developed a nanovaccine with gold glyconanoparticles conjugated to LM peptide 1-22 of GAPDH (Lmo2459), GNP-GAPDH1-22 nanovaccines formulated with a pro-inflammatory Toll-like receptor 2/4-targeted adjuvant. Neonates born to non-vaccinated pregnant mice with listeriosis, showed brain and vascular diseases and significant microglial dysfunction by induction of TNF-α-mediated apoptosis. This programmed TNF-mediated suicide explains LM dissemination in brains and livers and blocks production of early pro-inflammatory cytokines such as IL-1β and interferon-α/β. In contrast, neonates born to GNPGAPDH 1–22-vaccinated mothers before LM infection, did not develop listeriosis or brain diseases and had functional microglia. In nanovaccinated mothers, immune responses shifted towards Th1/IL-12 pro-inflammatory cytokine profiles and high production of anti-GAPDH1–22 antibodies, suggesting good induction of LM-specific memory, This study was supported by IDIVAL grants API2010/03/SAF2009-08695, AIP13/2014/SAF2012- 34203 and INNVAL15/01 (to C. A-D and J.F), the Spanish Government through Plan Nacional (MINECO) (SAF2012-34203), FIPSE (ISCIII) (00-00002755-16) and CIBER-BNN (CIB16-NM009) (to C. A-D and I. G), RED RICET RD12/0018/0004 and BIOMID (ISCIII), SAF2013-42850-R (MINECO), HOMIN-317057- FP7-PEOPLE-2012-ITN (EU) (to M.F) and by the Spanish Government through Plan Nacional (MINECO) (CTQ2011-27268) (to S.P).
Published: 2017
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32. Author Correction: Biofilm formation by multidrug resistant Enterobacteriaceae strains isolated from solid organ transplant recipients

Author: José Ramos-Vivas, Itziar Chapartegui-González, Marta Fernández-Martínez, Claudia González-Rico, Jesús Fortún, Rosa Escudero, Francesc Marco, Laura Linares, Miguel Montejo, Maitane Aranzamendi, Patricia Muñoz, Maricela Valerio, Jose María Aguado, Elena Resino, Irene Gracia Ahufinger, Aurora Paz Vega, Luis Martínez-Martínez, María Carmen Fariñas, and The ENTHERE Study Group, the Group for Study of Infection in Transplantation of the Spanish Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (GESITRA-SEIMC) and the Spanish Network for Research in Infectious Diseases (REIPI)
Subjects: Multidisciplinary, biology, business.industry, lcsh:R, Biofilm, lcsh:Medicine, Bacterial Infections, Organ Transplantation, biology.organism_classification, Enterobacteriaceae, Microbiology, Multiple drug resistance, Biofilms, Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial, Humans, Medicine, lcsh:Q, Author Correction, Solid organ transplantation, business, lcsh:Science
Abstract: Solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients are especially at risk of developing infections by multidrug resistant bacteria (MDR). In this study, the biofilm-forming capability of 209 MDR strains (Escherichia coli n = 106, Klebsiella pneumoniae n = 78, and Enterobacter spp. n = 25) isolated from rectal swabs in the first 48 hours before or after kidney (93 patients), liver (60 patients) or kidney/pancreas transplants (5 patients) were evaluated by using a microplate assay. Thirty-nine strains were isolated before transplant and 170 strains were isolated post-transplant. Overall, 16% of E. coli strains, 73% of K. pneumoniae strains and 4% Enterobacter strains showed moderate or strong biofilm production. Nine strains isolated from infection sites after transplantation were responsible of infections in the first month. Of these, 4 K. pneumoniae, 1 E. coli and 1 Enterobacter spp. strains isolated pre-transplant or post-transplant as colonizers caused infections in the post-transplant period. Our results suggest that in vitro biofilm formation could be an important factor for adhesion to intestine and colonization in MDR K. pneumoniae strains in SOT recipients, but this factor appears to be less important for MDR E. coli and Enterobacter spp.
Published: 2020
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33. Prevalence of Colorectal Neoplasms Among Patients With Enterococcus faecalis Endocarditis in the GAMES Cohort (2008-2017)

Author: Juan M. Pericàs, Juan Ambrosioni, Patricia Muñoz, Arístides de Alarcón, Martha Kestler, Amaia Mari-Hualde, Asunción Moreno, Miguel Á. Goenaga, M. Carmen Fariñas, Regino Rodríguez-Álvarez, Guillermo Ojeda-Burgos, Juan Gálvez-Acebal, Carmen Hidalgo-Tenorio, Mariam Noureddine, José M. Miró, Fernando Fernández Sánchez, Gabriel Rosas, Javier de la Torre Lima, Roberto Blanco, María Victoria Boado, Marta Campaña Lázaro, Alejandro Crespo, Josune Goikoetxea, José Ramón Iruretagoyena, Josu Irurzun Zuazabal, Leire López-Soria, Miguel Montejo, Javier Nieto, David Rodrigo, Regino Rodríguez, Yolanda Vitoria, Roberto Voces, Ma Victoria García López, Radka Ivanova Georgieva, Guillermo Ojeda, Isabel Rodríguez Bailón, Josefa Ruiz Morales, Ana María Cuende, Tomás Echeverría, Ana Fuerte, Eduardo Gaminde, Miguel Ángel Goenaga, Pedro Idígoras, José Antonio Iribarren, Alberto Izaguirre Yarza, Xabier Kortajarena Urkola, Carlos Reviejo, Rafael Carrasco, Vicente Climent, Patricio Llamas, Esperanza Merino, Joaquín Plazas, Sergio Reus, Nemesio Álvarez, José María Bravo-Ferrer, Laura Castelo, José Cuenca, Pedro Llinares, Enrique Miguez Rey, María Rodríguez Mayo, Efrén Sánchez, Dolores Sousa Regueiro, Francisco Javier Martínez, Ma del Mar Alonso, Beatriz Castro, Dácil García Rosado, Ma del Carmen Durán, Ma Antonia Miguel Gómez, Juan Lacalzada, Ibrahim Nassar, Antonio Plata Ciezar, José Ma Reguera Iglesias, Víctor Asensi Álvarez, Carlos Costas, Jesús de la Hera, Jonnathan Fernández Suárez, Lisardo Iglesias Fraile, Víctor León Arguero, José López Menéndez, Pilar Mencia Bajo, Carlos Morales, Alfonso Moreno Torrico, Carmen Palomo, Begoña Paya Martínez, Ángeles Rodríguez Esteban, Raquel Rodríguez García, Mauricio Telenti Asensio, Manuel Almela, Manuel Azqueta, Mercè Brunet, Marta Bodro, Ramón Cartañá, Carlos Falces, Guillermina Fita, David Fuster, Cristina García de la Mària, Delia García-Pares, Marta Hernández-Meneses, Jaume Llopis Pérez, Francesc Marco, David Nicolás, Salvador Ninot, Eduardo Quintana, Carlos Paré, Daniel Pereda, Juan M. Pericás, José L. Pomar, José Ramírez, Irene Rovira, Elena Sandoval, Marta Sitges, Dolors Soy, Adrián Téllez, José M. Tolosana, Bárbara Vidal, Jordi Vila, Iván Adán, Javier Bermejo, Emilio Bouza, Daniel Celemín, Gregorio Cuerpo Caballero, Antonia Delgado Montero, Ana García Mansilla, Ma Eugenia García Leoni, Víctor González Ramallo, Martha Kestler Hernández, Amaia Mari Hualde, Mercedes Marín, Manuel Martínez-Sellés, Cristina Rincón, Hugo Rodríguez-Abella, Marta Rodríguez-Créixems, Blanca Pinilla, Ángel Pinto, Maricela Valerio, Pilar Vázquez, Eduardo Verde Moreno, Isabel Antorrena, Belén Loeches, Alejandro Martín Quirós, Mar Moreno, Ulises Ramírez, Verónica Rial Bastón, María Romero, Araceli Saldaña, Jesús Agüero Balbín, Carlos Armiñanzas Castillo, Ana Arnaiz, Francisco Arnaiz de las Revillas, Manuel Cobo Belaustegui, María Carmen Fariñas, Concepción Fariñas-Álvarez, Rubén Gómez Izquierdo, Iván García, Claudia González Rico, Manuel Gutiérrez-Cuadra, José Gutiérrez Díez, Marcos Pajarón, José Antonio Parra, Ramón Teira, Jesús Zarauza, Jorge Calderón Parra, Marta Cobo, Fernando Domínguez, Alberto Fortaleza, Pablo García Pavía, Jesús González, Ana Fernández Cruz, Elena Múñez, Antonio Ramos, Isabel Sánchez Romero, Tomasa Centella, José Manuel Hermida, José Luis Moya, Pilar Martín-Dávila, Enrique Navas, Enrique Oliva, Alejandro del Río, Jorge Rodríguez-Roda Stuart, Soledad Ruiz, Carmen Hidalgo Tenorio, Manuel Almendro Delia, Omar Araji, José Miguel Barquero, Román Calvo Jambrina, Marina de Cueto, Juan Gálvez Acebal, Irene Méndez, Isabel Morales, Luis Eduardo López-Cortés, Emilio García, Juan Luis Haro, José Antonio Lepe, Francisco López, Rafael Luque, Luis Javier Alonso, Pedro Azcárate, José Manuel Azcona Gutiérrez, José Ramón Blanco, Antonio Cabrera Villegas, Lara García-Álvarez, José Antonio Oteo, Mercedes Sanz, Natividad de Benito, Mercé Gurguí, Cristina Pacho, Roser Pericas, Guillem Pons, M. Álvarez, A.L. Fernández, Amparo Martínez, A. Prieto, Benito Regueiro, E. Tijeira, Marino Vega, Andrés Canut Blasco, José Cordo Mollar, Juan Carlos Gainzarain Arana, Oscar García Uriarte, Alejandro Martín López, Zuriñe Ortiz de Zárate, José Antonio Urturi Matos, García-Domínguez Gloria, Sánchez-Porto Antonio, José Ma Arribas Leal, Elisa García Vázquez, Alicia Hernández Torres, Ana Blázquez, Gonzalo de la Morena Valenzuela, Ángel Alonso, Javier Aramburu, Felicitas Elena Calvo, Anai Moreno Rodríguez, Paola Tarabini-Castellani, Eva Heredero Gálvez, Carolina Maicas Bellido, José Largo Pau, Ma Antonia Sepúlveda, Pilar Toledano Sierra, Sadaf Zafar Iqbal-Mirza, Eva Cascales Alcolea, Ivan Keituqwa Yañez, Julián Navarro Martínez, Ana Peláez Ballesta, Eduardo Moreno Escobar, Alejandro Peña Monje, Valme Sánchez Cabrera, David Vinuesa García, María Arrizabalaga Asenjo, Carmen Cifuentes Luna, Juana Núñez Morcillo, Ma Cruz Pérez Seco, Aroa Villoslada Gelabert, Carmen Aured Guallar, Nuria Fernández Abad, Pilar García Mangas, Marta Matamala Adell, Ma Pilar Palacián Ruiz, Juan Carlos Porres, Begoña Alcaraz Vidal, Nazaret Cobos Trigueros, María Jesús Del Amor Espín, José Antonio Giner Caro, Roberto Jiménez Sánchez, Amaya Jimeno Almazán, Alejandro Ortín Freire, Monserrat Viqueira González, Pere Pericás Ramis, Ma Ángels Ribas Blanco, Enrique Ruiz de Gopegui Bordes, Laura Vidal Bonet, Ma Carmen Bellón Munera, Elena Escribano Garaizabal, Antonia Tercero Martínez, Juan Carlos Segura Luque, Cristina Badía, Lucía Boix Palop, Mariona Xercavins, Sónia Ibars. Eloy Gómez Nebreda, Ibalia Horcajada Herrera, Irene Menduiña Gallego Héctor Marrero Santiago, Isabel de Miguel Martínez, and Elena Pisos Álamo
Subjects: Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Colorectal cancer, Population, Colonoscopy, Enterococcus faecalis, Risk Factors, Internal medicine, medicine, Prevalence, Endocarditis, Humans, education, Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections, Aged, Retrospective Studies, Aged, 80 and over, education.field_of_study, medicine.diagnostic_test, biology, business.industry, Retrospective cohort study, General Medicine, Endocarditis, Bacterial, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, biology.organism_classification, Infective endocarditis, Cohort, Female, business, Colorectal Neoplasms
Abstract: Objective: To investigate the rate of colorectal neoplasms (CRNs) in patients who have Enterococcus faecalis infective endocarditis (EFIE) with available colonoscopies and to assess whether this is associated with the identification of a focus the infection. Patients and Methods: Retrospective analysis of data from a prospective multicenter study involving 35 centers who are members of the Grupo de Apoyo para el Manejo de la Endocarditis en Espana [Support Group for the Management of Infective Endocarditis in Spain] cohort. A specific set of queries regarding information on colonoscopy and histopathology of colorectal diseases was sent to each participating center. Four-hundred sixty-seven patients with EFIE were included from January 1, 2008, to December 31, 2017, from whom data on colonoscopy performance and results were available in 411 patients. Results: One hundred forty-two (34.5%) patients had a colonoscopy close to the EFIE episode. The overall rate of colorectal diseases was 70.4% (100 of 142), whereas the prevalence of CRN (advanced adenomas and colorectal carcinoma) was 14.8% (21 of 142), with no significant differences between the group of EFIE of unknown focus and that with an identified focus. Conclusion: Our study adds to prior evidence suggesting a much higher rate of CRN among patients with EFIE than in the general population of the same age and sex. In addition, our findings suggest that this phenomenon might take place both in EFIE with an unknown and an identified source of infection.
Published: 2019

34. The Impact of Culturing the Organ Preservation Fluid on Solid Organ Transplantation: A Prospective Multicenter Cohort Study

Author: A. Moreno, José González-Costello, David Paredes, Jordi Càmara, J A Cabo-González, E. Oliver, Cristina Pérez-Cameo, M A Ballesteros, José Tiago Silva, Dàmaris Berbel, Anna Manonelles, S Pérez-Recio, Agustín Muñoz-Sanz, Isabel Oriol, Oscar Len, Jordi Carratalà, Daniel Camprubí, J L García-López, Marta Bodro, Laura Linares, L. Soldevila, Francisco López-Medrano, N. Lavid, Carlos Jiménez-Romero, N. Sabé, Manuel Almela, M.C. Fariñas, José María Aguado, Rosa Escudero, J. Fortún, F. Arnaiz de las Revillas, Laura Lladó, E. Nuño, María Ángeles Domínguez, Claudia González-Rico, G Blanco-Fernández, L L Guillem, L Garcia-Cuello, and Universidad de Cantabria
Subjects: medicine.medical_specialty, preservation fluid, 030230 surgery, preemptive antibiotic therapy, Organ transplantation, Major Articles, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Solid organ transplantation, medicine, Cumulative incidence, solid organ transplantation, business.industry, Preservation fluid, Preemptive antibiotic therapy, preservation fluid–related infection, Surgery, Transplantation, Infectious Diseases, Oncology, Etiology, Preservation fluid-related infection, 030211 gastroenterology & hepatology, Solid organ, business, Cohort study
Abstract: Background We analyzed the prevalence, etiology, and risk factors of culture-positive preservation fluid and their impact on the management of solid organ transplant recipients. Methods From July 2015 to March 2017, 622 episodes of adult solid organ transplants at 7 university hospitals in Spain were prospectively included in the study. Results The prevalence of culture-positive preservation fluid was 62.5% (389/622). Nevertheless, in only 25.2% (98/389) of the cases were the isolates considered “high risk” for pathogenicity. After applying a multivariate regression analysis, advanced donor age was the main associated factor for having culture-positive preservation fluid for high-risk microorganisms. Preemptive antibiotic therapy was given to 19.8% (77/389) of the cases. The incidence rate of preservation fluid–related infection was 1.3% (5 recipients); none of these patients had received preemptive therapy. Solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients with high-risk culture-positive preservation fluid receiving preemptive antibiotic therapy presented both a lower cumulative incidence of infection and a lower rate of acute rejection and graft loss compared with those who did not have high-risk culture-positive preservation fluid. After adjusting for age, sex, type of transplant, and prior graft rejection, preemptive antibiotic therapy remained a significant protective factor for 90-day infection. Conclusions The routine culture of preservation fluid may be considered a tool that provides information about the contamination of the transplanted organ. Preemptive therapy for SOT recipients with high-risk culture-positive preservation fluid may be useful to avoid preservation fluid–related infections and improve the outcomes of infection, graft loss, and graft rejection in transplant patients.
Published: 2019

35. Infective Endocarditis in Patients With Bicuspid Aortic Valve or Mitral Valve Prolapse

Author: Isabel Zegri-Reiriz, Arístides de Alarcón, Patricia Muñoz, Manuel Martínez Sellés, Victor González-Ramallo, Jose M. Miro, Carles Falces, Claudia Gonzalez Rico, Xabier Kortajarena Urkola, José Antonio Lepe, Regino Rodriguez Alvarez, Jose Maria Reguera Iglesias, Enrique Navas, Fernando Dominguez, Pablo Garcia-Pavia, Fernando Fernández Sánchez, Mariam Noureddine, Gabriel Rosas, Javier de la Torre Lima, José Aramendi, Elena Bereciartua, María José Blanco, Roberto Blanco, María Victoria Boado, Marta Campaña Lázaro, Alejandro Crespo, Josune Goikoetxea, José Ramón Iruretagoyena, Josu Irurzun Zuazabal, Leire López-Soria, Miguel Montejo, Javier Nieto, David Rodrigo, David Rodríguez, Regino Rodríguez, Yolanda Vitoria, Roberto Voces, María Victoria García López, Radka Ivanova Georgieva, Guillermo Ojeda, Isabel Rodríguez Bailón, Josefa Ruiz Morales, Ana María Cuende, Tomás Echeverría, Ana Fuerte, Eduardo Gaminde, Miguel Ángel Goenaga, Pedro Idígoras, José Antonio Iribarren, Alberto Izaguirre Yarza, Carlos Reviejo, Rafael Carrasco, Vicente Climent, Patricio Llamas, Esperanza Merino, Joaquín Plazas, Sergio Reus, Nemesio Álvarez, José María Bravo-Ferrer, Laura Castelo, José Cuenca, Pedro Llinares, Enrique Miguez Rey, María Rodríguez Mayo, Efrén Sánchez, Dolores Sousa Regueiro, Francisco Javier Martínez, María del Mar Alonso, Beatriz Castro, Dácil García Rosado, Mª del Carmen Durán, Mª Antonia Miguel Gómez, Juan Lacalzada, Ibrahim Nassar, Antonio Plata Ciezar, José Mª Reguera Iglesias, Víctor Asensi Álvarez, Carlos Costas, Jesús de la Hera, Jonnathan Fernández Suárez, Lisardo Iglesias Fraile, Víctor León Arguero, José López Menéndez, Pilar Mencia Bajo, Carlos Morales, Alfonso Moreno Torrico, Carmen Palomo, Begoña Paya Martínez, Ángeles Rodríguez Esteban, Raquel Rodríguez García, Mauricio Telenti Asensio, Manuel Almela, Juan Ambrosioni, Manuel Azqueta, Mercè Brunet, Marta Bodro, Ramón Cartañá, Carlos Falces, Guillermina Fita, David Fuster, Cristina García de la Mària, Marta Hernández-Meneses, Jaume Llopis Pérez, Francesc Marco, José María Miró, Asunción Moreno, David Nicolás, Salvador Ninot, Eduardo Quintana, Carlos Paré, Daniel Pereda, Juan Manuel Pericás, José Luis Pomar, José Ramírez, Irene Rovira, Elena Sandoval, Marta Sitges, Dolors Soy, Adrián Téllez, José M. Tolosana, Bárbara Vidal, Jordi Vila, Iván Adán, Javier Bermejo, Emilio Bouza, Daniel Celemín, Gregorio Cuerpo Caballero, Antonia Delgado Montero, Ana Fernández Cruz, Ana García Mansilla, María Eugenia García Leoni, Víctor González Ramallo, Martha Kestler Hernández, Amaia Mari Hualde, Mercedes Marín, Manuel Martínez-Sellés, María Cruz Menárguez, Cristina Rincón, Hugo Rodríguez-Abella, Marta Rodríguez-Créixems, Blanca Pinilla, Ángel Pinto, Maricela Valerio, Pilar Vázquez, Eduardo Verde Moreno, Isabel Antorrena, Belén Loeches, Alejandro Martín Quirós, Mar Moreno, Ulises Ramírez, Verónica Rial Bastón, María Romero, Araceli Saldaña, Jesús Agüero Balbín, Carlos Armiñanzas Castillo, Ana Arnaiz, Francisco Arnaiz de las Revillas, Manuel Cobo Belaustegui, María Carmen Fariñas, Concepción Fariñas-Álvarez, Rubén Gómez Izquierdo, Iván García, Claudia González Rico, Manuel Gutiérrez-Cuadra, José Gutiérrez Díez, Marcos Pajarón, José Antonio Parra, Ramón Teira, Jesús Zarauza, Fernando Domínguez, Pablo García-Pavía, Jesús González Mirelis, Beatriz Orden, Antonio Ramos, Marta Cobo-Marcos, Tomasa Centella, José Manuel Hermida, José Luis Moya, Pilar Martín-Dávila, Enrique Oliva, Alejandro del Río, Soledad Ruiz, Carmen Hidalgo Tenorio, Manuel Almendro Delia, Omar Araji, José Miguel Barquero, Román Calvo Jambrina, Marina de Cueto, Juan Gálvez Acebal, Irene Méndez, Isabel Morales, Luis Eduardo López-Cortés, Emilio García, Juan Luis Haro, Francisco López, Rafael Luque, Luis Javier Alonso, Pedro Azcárate, José Manuel Azcona Gutiérrez, José Ramón Blanco, Lara García-Álvarez, José Antonio Oteo, Mercedes Sanz, Natividad de Benito, Mercé Gurguí, Cristina Pacho, Roser Pericas, Guillem Pons, Ángel Luis Fernández, Amparo Martínez, Arturo Prieto, Benito Regueiro, Marino Vega, Andrés Canut Blasco, José Cordo Mollar, Juan Carlos Gainzarain Arana, Oscar García Uriarte, Alejandro Martín López, Zuriñe Ortiz de Zárate, José Antonio Urturi Matos, Gloria García Domínguez, Antonio Sánchez-Porto, José Mª Arribas Leal, Elisa García Vázquez, Alicia Hernández Torres, Ana Blázquez, Gonzalo de la Morena Valenzuela, Ángel Alonso, Javier Aramburu, Felicitas Elena Calvo, Anai Moreno Rodríguez, Paola Tarabini-Castellani, Eva Heredero Gálvez, Carolina Maicas Bellido, José Largo Pau, María Antonia Sepúlveda, Pilar Toledano Sierra, Sadaf Zafar Iqbal-Mirza, Eva Cascales Alcolea, Pilar Egea Serrano, José Joaquín Hernández Roca, Ivan Keituqwa Yañez, Ana Peláez Ballesta, Víctor Soriano, Eduardo Moreno Escobar, Alejandro Peña Monje, Valme Sánchez Cabrera, David Vinuesa García, María Arrizabalaga Asenjo, Carmen Cifuentes Luna, Juana Núñez Morcillo, Mª Cruz Pérez Seco, Aroa Villoslada Gelabert, Carmen Aured Guallar, Nuria Fernández Abad, Pilar García Mangas, Marta Matamala Adell, Mª Pilar Palacián Ruiz, Juan Carlos Porres, Begoña Alcaraz Vidal, Nazaret Cobos Trigueros, María Jesús Del Amor Espín, José Antonio Giner Caro, Roberto Jiménez Sánchez, Amaya Jimeno Almazán, Alejandro Ortín Freire, Monserrat Viqueira González, Pere Pericás Ramis, Mª Ángels Ribas Blanco, Enrique Ruiz de Gopegui Bordes, Laura Vidal Bonet, Mª Carmen Bellón Munera, Elena Escribano Garaizabal, Antonia Tercero Martínez, and Juan Carlos Segura Luque
Subjects: Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, bicuspid aortic valve, Enfermedad cardiovascular, Heart Valve Diseases, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Intracardiac injection, 03 medical and health sciences, Tratamiento médico, 0302 clinical medicine, Bicuspid aortic valve, Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease, medicine, Mitral valve prolapse, Endocarditis, Humans, In patient, 030212 general & internal medicine, Registries, Antibiotic prophylaxis, Antibióticos, Aged, Endocarditis infecciosa, Mitral Valve Prolapse, antibiotic prophylaxis, business.industry, Incidence (epidemiology), Antibiotic Prophylaxis, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Surgery, Infective endocarditis, Aortic Valve, Válvulas cardíacas, Female, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business
Abstract: Background: There is little information concerning infective endocarditis (IE) in patients with bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) or mitral valve prolapse (MVP). Currently, IE antibiotic prophylaxis (IEAP) is not recommended for these conditions. Objectives: This study sought to describe the clinical and microbiological features of IE in patients with BAV and MVP and compare them with those of IE patients with and without IEAP indication, to determine the potential benefit of IEAP in these conditions. Methods: This analysis involved 3,208 consecutive IE patients prospectively included in the GAMES (Grupo de Apoyo al Manejo de la Endocarditis infecciosa en España) registry at 31 Spanish hospitals. Patients were classified as high-risk IE with IEAP indication (high-risk group; n = 1,226), low- and moderate-risk IE without IEAP indication (low/moderate-risk group; n = 1,839), and IE with BAV (n = 54) or MVP (n = 89). Results: BAV and MVP patients had a higher incidence of viridans group streptococci IE than did high-risk group and low/moderate-risk group patients (35.2% and 39.3% vs. 12.1% and 15.0%, respectively; all p < 0.01). A similar pattern was seen for IE from suspected odontologic origin (14.8% and 18.0% vs. 5.8% and 6.0%; all p < 0.01). BAV and MVP patients had more intracardiac complications than did low/moderate-risk group (50% and 47.2% vs. 30.6%, both p < 0.01) patients and were similar to high-risk group patients. Conclusions: IE in patients with BAV and MVP have higher rates of viridans group streptococci IE and IE from suspected odontologic origin than in other IE patients, with a clinical profile similar to that of high-risk IE patients. Our findings suggest that BAV and MVP should be classified as high-risk IE conditions and the case for IEAP should be reconsidered. Sin financiación 18.639 JCR (2018) Q1, 3/136 Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems 9.280 SJR (2018) Q1, 1/365 Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine No data IDR 2018 UEM
Published: 2018

36. Left-sided infective endocarditis in patients with liver cirrhosis

Author: J. Ruiz-Morales, R. Ivanova-Georgieva, N. Fernández-Hidalgo, E. García-Cabrera, Jose M. Miró, P. Muñoz, B. Almirante, A. Plata-Ciézar, V. González-Ramallo, J. Gálvez-Acebal, M.C. Fariñas, J.M. Bravo-Ferrer, M.A. Goenaga-Sánchez, C. Hidalgo-Tenorio, J. Goikoetxea-Agirre, A. de Alarcón-González, Fernando Fernández Sánchez, Marian Noureddine, Gabriel Rosas, Javier de la Torre Lima, José Aramendi, Elena Bereciartua, María Victoria Boado, Marta Campaña Lázaro, Juan José Goiti, José Luis Hernández, José Ramón Iruretagoyena, Josu Irurzun Zuazabal, Leire López-Soria, Miguel Montejo, Pedro María Pérez, Regino Rodríguez, Roberto Voces, Mª Victoria García López, Manuel Márquez Solero, Isabel Rodríguez Bailón, Gemma Sanchez Espín, Juan Otero, Ana María Cuende, Eduardo Gaminde, Pedro Idígoras, José Antonio Iribarren, Alberto Izaguirre Yarza, Carlos Reviejo, Tomás Echeverría, Ana Fuertes, Rafael Carrasco, Vicente Climent, Patricio Llamas, Esperanza Merino, Joaquín Plazas, Sergio Reus, Nemesio Álvarez, María del Mar Carmona, Laura Castelo, José Cuenca, Pedro Llinares, Enrique Miguez Rey, María Rodríguez Mayo, Dolores Sousa, Mª Carmen Zúñiga, Francisco Javier Martínez-Marcos, J.M. Lomas Cabezas, Mª del Mar Alonso, Beatriz Castro, Dácil García Marrero, Mª del Carmen Durán, Mª Antonia Miguel Gómez, Juan La Calzada, Ibrahim Nassar, José Mª Reguera Iglesias, Víctor Asensi Álvarez, Carlos Costas, Jesús de la Hera, Jonnathan Fernández Suárez, José Manuel García Ruiz, Lisardo Iglesias Fraile, José López Menéndez, Pilar Mencia Bajo, Carlos Morales, Alfonso Moreno Torrico, Carmen Palomo, Begoña Paya Martínez, Ángeles Rodríguez, Raquel Rodríguez García, Mauricio Telenti, Manuel Almela, Yolanda Armero, Manuel Azqueta, Ximena Castañeda, Carlos Cervera, Carlos Falces, Cristina García-de-la-Maria, José M. Gatell, Jaume Llopis, Francesc Marco, Carlos A. Mestres, Asunción Moreno, Salvador Ninot, José Ramírez, Marta Sitges, Carlos Paré, Juan M. Pericás, Javier Bermejo, Emilio Bouza, Viviana de Egea, Alia Eworo, Ana Fernández Cruz, Mª Eugenia García Leoni, Marcela González del Vecchio, Víctor González Ramallo, Martha Kestler Hernández, Mercedes Marín, Manuel Martínez-Sellés, Mª Cruz Menárguez, Hugo Rodríguez-Abella, Marta Rodríguez-Créixems, Jorge Rodríguez Roda, Blanca Pinilla, Ángel Pinto, Maricela Valerio, Eduardo Verde Moreno, Isabel Antorrena, Mar Moreno, José Ramón Paño, Sandra Rosillo, María Romero, Araceli Saldaña, Carlos Armiñanzas Castillo, Ana Arnaiz, José Berrazueta, Sara Bellisco, Manuel Cobo Belaustegui, Raquel Durán, Concepción Fariñas-Álvarez, Carlos Fernández Mazarrasa, Rubén Gómez Izquierdo, Claudia González Rico, José Gutiérrez Díez, Rafael Martín Durán, Marcos Pajarón, José Antonio Parra, Ramón Teira, Jesús Zarauza, Pablo García Pavía, Jesús González, Beatriz Orden, Antonio Ramos, Elena Rodríguez González, Tomasa Centella, José Hermida, José Moya, Pilar Martínez, Enrique Navas, Enrique Oliva, Alejandro del Río, Soledad Ruiz, Antonio de Castro, Marina de Cueto, Pastora Gallego, Jesús Rodríguez Baño, José Antonio Lepe, Rafael Luque Márquez, Encarnación Gutiérrez-Carretero, Julia Eslava Galán, Luis Javier Alonso, José Manuel Azcona Gutiérrez, José Ramón Blanco, Lara García, José Antonio Oteo, Natividad de Benito, Mercé Gurguí, Cristina Pacho, Roser Pericas, Guillem Pons, M. Álvarez, A.L. Fernández, Amparo Martínez, A. Prieto, Benito Regueiro, E. Tijeira, Marino Vega, Andrés Canut Blasco, José Cordo Mollar, Juan Carlos Gainzarain Arana, Oscar García Uriarte, Alejandro Martín López, Zuriñe Ortiz de Zárate, José Antonio Urturi Matos, Mª Belén Nacle, Antonio Sánchez, Luis Vallejo, José Mª Arribas Leal, Elisa García Vázquez, Alicia Hernández Torres, Joaquín Ruiz Gómez, Gonzalo de la Morena Valenzuela, Ángel Alonso, Javier Aramburu, Felicitas Elena Calvo, Anai Moreno Rodríguez, Paola Tarabini-Castellani, Eva Heredero Gálvez, Carolina Maicas Bellido, Mª Antonia Sepúlveda, Eva Cascales Alcolea, Pilar Egea Serrano, and José Joaquín Hernández Roca
Subjects: Liver Cirrhosis, Male, Microbiology (medical), medicine.medical_specialty, Cirrhosis, medicine.disease_cause, Gastroenterology, Cohort Studies, Risk Factors, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, In patient, Prospective Studies, Cardiac Surgical Procedures, Stage (cooking), Prospective cohort study, Aged, Ejection fraction, business.industry, Endocarditis, Bacterial, Middle Aged, Prognosis, medicine.disease, Surgery, Infectious Diseases, Spain, Staphylococcus aureus, Infective endocarditis, Female, business, Cohort study
Abstract: To evaluate the course of left-sided infective endocarditis (LsIE) in patients with liver cirrhosis (LC) analyzing its influence on mortality and the impact of surgery.Prospective cohort study, conducted from 1984 to 2013 in 26 Spanish hospitals.A total of 3.136 patients with LsIE were enrolled and 308 had LC: 151 Child-Pugh A, 103 B, 34 C and 20 were excluded because of unknown stage. Mortality was significantly higher in the patients with LsIE and LC (42.5% vs. 28.4%; p0.01) and this condition was in general an independent worse factor for outcome (HR 1.51, 95% CI: 1.23-1.85; p0.001). However, patients in stage A had similar mortality to patients without cirrhosis (31.8% vs. 28.4% p = NS) and in this stage heart surgery had a protective effect (28% in operated patients vs. 60% in non-operated when it was indicated). Mortality was significantly higher in stages B (52.4%) and C (52.9%) and the prognosis was better for patients in stage B who underwent surgery immediately (mortality 50%) compared to those where surgery was delayed (58%) or not performed (74%). Only one patient in stage C underwent surgery.Patients with liver cirrhosis and infective endocarditis have a poorer prognosis only in stages B and C. Early surgery must be performed in stages A and although in selected patients in stage B when indicated.
Published: 2015
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37. Erratum for del Barrio-Tofiño et al., 'Genomics and Susceptibility Profiles of Extensively Drug-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolates from Spain'

Author: Gabriel Cabot, Cristina Labayru-Echverria, Silvia Gómez-Zorrilla, Concepción Segura, José Antonio Martínez, Laura Zamorano, Juan Pablo Horcajada, Luisa Sorlí, Claudia González-Rico, Ignacio Ayestarán, Esther Viedma, Raquel Durá-Navarro, Marta Fernández-Martínez, Ester del Barrio-Tofiño, Fe Tubau, María Milagro Montero, Alba Rivera, Carlos Dueñas, Carla López-Causapé, Natividad Benito, Izaskun Alejo-Cancho, Luis Martínez-Martínez, Nuria Tormo, Elena Resino-Foz, and Antonio Oliver
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Pharmacology, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, 030106 microbiology, Genomics, Drug resistance, Biology, biochemical phenomena, metabolism, and nutrition, medicine.disease_cause, bacterial infections and mycoses, Microbiology, 03 medical and health sciences, Infectious Diseases, Mechanisms of Resistance, medicine, polycyclic compounds, Pharmacology (medical)
Abstract: This study assessed the molecular epidemiology, resistance mechanisms, and susceptibility profiles of a collection of 150 extensively drug-resistant (XDR) Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates obtained from a 2015 Spanish multicenter study, with a particular focus on resistome analysis in relation to ceftolozane-tazobactam susceptibility. Broth microdilution MICs revealed that nearly all (>95%) of the isolates were nonsusceptible to piperacillin-tazobactam, ceftazidime, cefepime, aztreonam, imipenem, meropenem, and ciprofloxacin. Most of them were also resistant to tobramycin (77%), whereas nonsusceptibility rates were lower for ceftolozane-tazobactam (31%), amikacin (7%), and colistin (2%). Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis–multilocus sequence typing (PFGE-MLST) analysis revealed that nearly all of the isolates belonged to previously described high-risk clones. Sequence type 175 (ST175) was detected in all 9 participating hospitals and accounted for 68% (n = 101) of the XDR isolates, distantly followed by ST244 (n = 16), ST253 (n = 12), ST235 (n = 8), and ST111 (n = 2), which were detected only in 1 to 2 hospitals. Through phenotypic and molecular methods, the presence of horizontally acquired carbapenemases was detected in 21% of the isolates, mostly VIM (17%) and GES enzymes (4%). At least two representative isolates from each clone and hospital (n = 44) were fully sequenced on an Illumina MiSeq. Classical mutational mechanisms, such as those leading to the overexpression of the β-lactamase AmpC or efflux pumps, OprD inactivation, and/or quinolone resistance-determining regions (QRDR) mutations, were confirmed in most isolates and correlated well with the resistance phenotypes in the absence of horizontally acquired determinants. Ceftolozane-tazobactam resistance was not detected in carbapenemase-negative isolates, in agreement with sequencing data showing the absence of ampC mutations. The unique set of mutations responsible for the XDR phenotype of ST175 clone documented 7 years earlier were found to be conserved, denoting the long-term persistence of this specific XDR lineage in Spanish hospitals. Finally, other potentially relevant mutations were evidenced, including those in penicillin-binding protein 3 (PBP3), which is involved in β-lactam (including ceftolozane-tazobactam) resistance, and FusA1, which is linked to aminoglycoside resistance.
Published: 2017

38. Genomics And Susceptibility Profiles Of Extensively Drug-resistant Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Isolates From Spain

Author: Ester del Barrio-Tofiño, Luisa Sorlí, José Antonio Martínez, Concepción Segura, Fe Tubau, Antonio Oliver, Luis Martínez-Martínez, Natividad Benito, Alba Rivera, Gabriel Cabot, Elena Resino-Foz, Juan Pablo Horcajada, Raquel Durá-Navarro, Laura Zamorano, María Milagro Montero, Cristina Labayru-Echverria, Silvia Gómez-Zorrilla, Marta Fernández-Martínez, Ignacio Ayestarán, Esther Viedma, Carlos Dueñas, Izaskun Alejo-Cancho, Carla López-Causapé, Claudia González-Rico, Nuria Tormo, [del Barrio-Tofino, Ester] Hosp Univ Son Espases, Inst Invest Illes Balears IdISBa, Dept Microbiol, Intens Care Unit, Palma De Mallorca, Spain, [Lopez-Causape, Carla] Hosp Univ Son Espases, Inst Invest Illes Balears IdISBa, Dept Microbiol, Intens Care Unit, Palma De Mallorca, Spain, [Cabot, Gabriel] Hosp Univ Son Espases, Inst Invest Illes Balears IdISBa, Dept Microbiol, Intens Care Unit, Palma De Mallorca, Spain, [Ayestaran, Ignacio] Hosp Univ Son Espases, Inst Invest Illes Balears IdISBa, Dept Microbiol, Intens Care Unit, Palma De Mallorca, Spain, [Zamorano, Laura] Hosp Univ Son Espases, Inst Invest Illes Balears IdISBa, Dept Microbiol, Intens Care Unit, Palma De Mallorca, Spain, [Oliver, Antonio] Hosp Univ Son Espases, Inst Invest Illes Balears IdISBa, Dept Microbiol, Intens Care Unit, Palma De Mallorca, Spain, [del Barrio-Tofino, Ester] Hosp Univ Son Espases, Inst Invest Illes Balears IdISBa, Unidad Invest, Palma De Mallorca, Spain, [Lopez-Causape, Carla] Hosp Univ Son Espases, Inst Invest Illes Balears IdISBa, Unidad Invest, Palma De Mallorca, Spain, [Cabot, Gabriel] Hosp Univ Son Espases, Inst Invest Illes Balears IdISBa, Unidad Invest, Palma De Mallorca, Spain, [Ayestaran, Ignacio] Hosp Univ Son Espases, Inst Invest Illes Balears IdISBa, Unidad Invest, Palma De Mallorca, Spain, [Zamorano, Laura] Hosp Univ Son Espases, Inst Invest Illes Balears IdISBa, Unidad Invest, Palma De Mallorca, Spain, [Oliver, Antonio] Hosp Univ Son Espases, Inst Invest Illes Balears IdISBa, Unidad Invest, Palma De Mallorca, Spain, [Rivera, Alba] Hosp Santa Creu & Sant Pau, Dept Microbiol & Infect Dis, Barcelona, Spain, [Benito, Natividad] Hosp Santa Creu & Sant Pau, Dept Microbiol & Infect Dis, Barcelona, Spain, [Segura, Concepcion] Hosp del Mar, Lab Referencia Catalunya, Infect Pathol & Antimicrobial Res Grp IPAR, Inst Hosp del Mar Invest Med IMIM, Barcelona, Spain, [Milagro Montero, Maria] Hosp del Mar, Lab Referencia Catalunya, Infect Pathol & Antimicrobial Res Grp IPAR, Inst Hosp del Mar Invest Med IMIM, Barcelona, Spain, [Sorli, Luisa] Hosp del Mar, Lab Referencia Catalunya, Infect Pathol & Antimicrobial Res Grp IPAR, Inst Hosp del Mar Invest Med IMIM, Barcelona, Spain, [Pablo Horcajada, Juan] Hosp del Mar, Lab Referencia Catalunya, Infect Pathol & Antimicrobial Res Grp IPAR, Inst Hosp del Mar Invest Med IMIM, Barcelona, Spain, [Segura, Concepcion] Hosp del Mar, Dept Infect Dis, Infect Pathol & Antimicrobial Res Grp IPAR, Inst Hosp del Mar Invest Med IMIM, Barcelona, Spain, [Milagro Montero, Maria] Hosp del Mar, Dept Infect Dis, Infect Pathol & Antimicrobial Res Grp IPAR, Inst Hosp del Mar Invest Med IMIM, Barcelona, Spain, [Sorli, Luisa] Hosp del Mar, Dept Infect Dis, Infect Pathol & Antimicrobial Res Grp IPAR, Inst Hosp del Mar Invest Med IMIM, Barcelona, Spain, [Pablo Horcajada, Juan] Hosp del Mar, Dept Infect Dis, Infect Pathol & Antimicrobial Res Grp IPAR, Inst Hosp del Mar Invest Med IMIM, Barcelona, Spain, [Tubau, Fe] Hosp Univ Bellvitge, Dept Microbiol & Infect Dis, Barcelona, Spain, [Gomez-Zorrilla, Silvia] Hosp Univ Bellvitge, Dept Microbiol & Infect Dis, Barcelona, Spain, [Tormo, Nuria] Consorcio Hosp Gen Univ Valencia, Dept Microbiol & Infect Dis, Valencia, Spain, [Dura-Navarro, Raquel] Consorcio Hosp Gen Univ Valencia, Dept Microbiol & Infect Dis, Valencia, Spain, [Viedma, Esther] Hosp Univ 12 Octubre, Dept Microbiol & Infect Dis, Madrid, Spain, [Resino-Foz, Elena] Hosp Univ 12 Octubre, Dept Microbiol & Infect Dis, Madrid, Spain, [Fernandez-Martinez, Marta] Hosp Univ Marques de Valdecilla, Inst Invest Valdecilla IDIVAL, Dept Microbiol & Infect Dis, Santander, Spain, [Gonzalez-Rico, Claudia] Hosp Univ Marques de Valdecilla, Inst Invest Valdecilla IDIVAL, Dept Microbiol & Infect Dis, Santander, Spain, [Alejo-Cancho, Izaskun] Hosp Univ Clin, Dept Microbiol & Infect Dis, Barcelona, Spain, [Antonio Martinez, Jose] Hosp Univ Clin, Dept Microbiol & Infect Dis, Barcelona, Spain, [Labayru-Echverria, Cristina] Hosp Univ Burgos, Dept Microbiol & Infect Dis, Burgos, Spain, [Duenas, Carlos] Hosp Univ Burgos, Dept Microbiol & Infect Dis, Burgos, Spain, [Martinez-Martinez, Luis] Univ Cordoba, Hosp Univ Reina Sofia, Dept Microbiol, Unit Microbiol, Cordoba, Spain, [Martinez-Martinez, Luis] Inst Maimonides Invest Biomed Cordoba IMIBIC, Cordoba, Spain, Plan Nacional de I+D+i, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Subdireccion General de Redes y Centros de Investigacion Cooperativa, Ministerio de Economia, Industria y Competitividad, Spanish Network for Research in Infectious Diseases, and European Development Regional Fund (ERDF)
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Imipenem, Ceftazidime, Penicillanic Acid, Aztreonam, Drug resistance, medicine.disease_cause, Antimicrobial resistance, chemistry.chemical_compound, polycyclic compounds, Pharmacology (medical), Aminoglycoside resistance, Molecular Epidemiology, extensively drug resistant, Beta-lactam resistance, Ceftolozane-tazobactam, Broth microdilution, 3. Good health, Anti-Bacterial Agents, Infectious Diseases, high-risk clones, Amikacin, whole-genome sequencing, Molecular epidemiology, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Erratum, Convergent evolution, Mutations, medicine.drug, Fluoroquinolones, Field gel-electrophoresis, Tazobactam, Carbapenem resistance, Cxa-101 fr264205, Epidemiologia molecular, 030106 microbiology, Microbial Sensitivity Tests, Biology, beta-Lactam Resistance, beta-Lactamases, Microbiology, 03 medical and health sciences, Polymyxin resistance, Bacterial Proteins, Pseudomonas, Drug Resistance, Bacterial, medicine, Humans, Pseudomonas Infections, Polymyxins, Pharmacology, biochemical phenomena, metabolism, and nutrition, bacterial infections and mycoses, Cephalosporins, Aminoglycosides, chemistry, Spain
Abstract: This study assessed the molecular epidemiology, resistance mechanisms, and susceptibility profiles of a collection of 150 extensively drug-resistant (XDR) Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates obtained from a 2015 Spanish multicenter study, with a particular focus on resistome analysis in relation to ceftolozane-tazobactam susceptibility. Broth microdilution MICs revealed that nearly all (>95%) of the isolates were nonsusceptible to piperacillin-tazobactam, ceftazidime, cefepime, aztreonam, imipenem, meropenem, and ciprofloxacin. Most of them were also resistant to tobramycin (77%), whereas nonsusceptibility rates were lower for ceftolozane-tazobactam (31%), amikacin (7%), and colistin (2%). Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis–multilocus sequence typing (PFGE-MLST) analysis revealed that nearly all of the isolates belonged to previously described high-risk clones. Sequence type 175 (ST175) was detected in all 9 participating hospitals and accounted for 68% ( n = 101) of the XDR isolates, distantly followed by ST244 ( n = 16), ST253 ( n = 12), ST235 ( n = 8), and ST111 ( n = 2), which were detected only in 1 to 2 hospitals. Through phenotypic and molecular methods, the presence of horizontally acquired carbapenemases was detected in 21% of the isolates, mostly VIM (17%) and GES enzymes (4%). At least two representative isolates from each clone and hospital ( n = 44) were fully sequenced on an Illumina MiSeq. Classical mutational mechanisms, such as those leading to the overexpression of the β-lactamase AmpC or efflux pumps, OprD inactivation, and/or quinolone resistance-determining regions (QRDR) mutations, were confirmed in most isolates and correlated well with the resistance phenotypes in the absence of horizontally acquired determinants. Ceftolozane-tazobactam resistance was not detected in carbapenemase-negative isolates, in agreement with sequencing data showing the absence of ampC mutations. The unique set of mutations responsible for the XDR phenotype of ST175 clone documented 7 years earlier were found to be conserved, denoting the long-term persistence of this specific XDR lineage in Spanish hospitals. Finally, other potentially relevant mutations were evidenced, including those in penicillin-binding protein 3 (PBP3), which is involved in β-lactam (including ceftolozane-tazobactam) resistance, and FusA1, which is linked to aminoglycoside resistance.
Published: 2017

39. Infective endocarditis in patients with cancer: a consequence of invasive procedures or a harbinger of neoplasm?: A prospective, multicenter cohort

Author: Antonio Sánchez-Porto, Javier Bermejo, Víctor José González Ramallo, Marta Hernández-Meneses, Adrián Téllez, Víctor Asensi Álvarez, Claudia González-Rico, Vicente Climent, Luis Eduardo López-Cortés, Angel L. Fernández, Eduard Quintana, Jordi Vila, Pilar Martín-Dávila, Ana Fernández-Cruz, José A. Oteo, Jose Maria Arribas Leal, Marina Cueto-López, Natividad Benito, Fernando Dominguez, Jose A. Lepe, Patricia Carmen Muñoz García, Javier De La Torre-Lima, Omar A Araji-Tiliani, Universidad de Cantabria, and Universitat de Barcelona
Subjects: Male, medicine.medical_specialty, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Duke criteria, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Sex Factors, Risk Factors, Internal medicine, Neoplasms, medicine, Endocarditis, Neoplasm, Humans, In patient, 030212 general & internal medicine, Hospital Mortality, Prospective Studies, Prospective cohort study, Càncer, Aged, Cancer, Cross Infection, business.industry, General Medicine, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Surgery, Estudi de casos, Infective endocarditis, Cohort, Female, Case studies, business
Abstract: The aim of the study was to draw a comparison between the characteristics of infective endocarditis (IE) in patients with cancer and those of IE in noncancer patients.Patients with IE, according to the modified Duke criteria, were prospectively included in the GAMES registry between January 2008 and February 2014 in 30 hospitals. Patients with active cancer were compared with noncancer patients.During the study period, 161 episodes of IE fulfilled the inclusion criteria. We studied 2 populations: patients whose cancer was diagnosed before IE (73.9%) and those whose cancer and IE were diagnosed simultaneously (26.1%). The latter more frequently had community-acquired IE (67.5% vs 26.4%, P
Published: 2017

40. Current Epidemiology and Outcome of Infective Endocarditis: A Multicenter, Prospective, Cohort Study

Author: Emilio Bouza, Javier Bermejo, Víctor José González Ramallo, Jesús Rodríguez-Baño, Víctor Asensi Álvarez, Claudia González-Rico, Vicente Climent, Angel L. Fernández, Francesc Marco, Antonio Ramos-Martinez, Ana Fernández-Cruz, Gonzalo De la Morena, Carlos Cervera, Lara García-Álvarez, José Ignacio Aramendi, José A. Oteo, Jose Maria Arribas Leal, Marina Cueto-López, Natividad Benito, Jose A. Lepe, Patricia Carmen Muñoz García, Martha Kestler, Juan M Pericas, Javier De La Torre-Lima, Jonathan Fernández-Suárez, and Benito Regueiro
Subjects: Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Epidemiology, Heart Valve Diseases, Observational Study, Communicable diseases, Risk Factors, Interquartile range, Internal medicine, Humans, Medicine, Endocarditis, Prospective Studies, Prospective cohort study, Epidemiologia, Aged, business.industry, General Medicine, Odds ratio, Middle Aged, Malalties infeccioses, medicine.disease, Surgery, Spain, Heart Valve Prosthesis, Infective endocarditis, Cohort, Etiology, Female, business, Research Article
Abstract: This study was partially financed by the CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES) from the ISCIII (CB06/06/0058) and by Fundación BBVA-FundacioóCarolina (research fellowship of Maricela Valerio)., Muñoz, P; Kestler, M; De Alarcon, A; Miro, JM; Bermejo, J; Rodriguez-Abella, H; Farinas, MC; Belaustegui, MC; Mestres, C; Llinares, P; Goenaga, M; Navas, E; Oteo, JA; Tarabini, P; Bouza, E.
Published: 2015

41. Influenza vaccination during the first 6 months after solid organ transplantation is efficacious and safe

Author: Patricia Muñoz, J.L. Montero, M.A. Gentil-Govantes, Diego Rincón, José María Aguado, Jordi Carratalà, P. Diez, Julián Torre-Cisneros, Marino Blanes, Angel Bulnes-Ramos, Joan Gavaldà, Manuel Rodríguez, S. Fernández-Rozas, C. Berasategui, I. Morales-Barroso, R. Durán, M.C. Fariñas, Paula López-Roa, Marta Bodro, F. Anaya, Cristina Roca, Elisa Vidal, Magda Campins, A. Gasch, Manuel López-Meseguer, F. Zurbano-Goñi, Miguel Montejo, M. Cobo-Beláustegy, Magdalena Salcedo, Alia Eworo, Elisa Cordero, S. Oriol, J. Fortún, Sylvana Melo dos Santos, M. Valerio, A. Rodríguez, C. Rosso, Francisco López-Medrano, Pilar Pérez-Romero, Rosario Lara, Julia Origüen, Juliana Martinez-Atienza, M.L. Agüera, Jordi Niubó, Emilio Bouza, Martha Kestler, E. Fábrega-García, Josune Goikoetxea, Teresa Aydillo, A. Páez, J.M. Alamo, Fernando Casafont, Sara Cantisán, M. Peghin, N. Sabé, M. A. Marcos, E. Lage, Claudia González-Rico, Y. Sousa, F.J. Molina-Ortega, J.L. Barranco, G. Sanclemente, N. Diez, A. Moreno, M. Sánchez, Pilar Catalán, Berta Sáez, J.M. Arizón, and Alejandro Suárez-Benjumea
Subjects: Adult, Microbiology (medical), medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions, Influenza vaccine, Disease, Antibodies, Viral, seroprotection, immune response, Young Adult, Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype, Internal medicine, Influenza, Human, medicine, Humans, Prospective Studies, Adverse effect, Prospective cohort study, solid organ transplantation, Immunization Schedule, Aged, Early vaccination, Aged, 80 and over, business.industry, Influenza A Virus, H3N2 Subtype, Immunogenicity, Organ Transplantation, General Medicine, Middle Aged, Transplant Recipients, Confidence interval, Surgery, Vaccination, Transplantation, Influenza B virus, Treatment Outcome, Infectious Diseases, Influenza Vaccines, influenza vaccine, business
Abstract: Preventing influenza infection early after transplantation is essential, given the disease's high mortality. A multicentre prospective cohort study in adult solid organ transplant recipients (SOTR) receiving the influenza vaccine during four consecutive influenza seasons (2009–2013) was performed to assess the immunogenicity and safety of influenza vaccination in SOTR before and 6 months after transplantation. A total of 798 SOTR, 130 of them vaccinated within 6 months of transplantation and 668 of them vaccinated more than 6 months since transplantation. Seroprotection was similar in both groups: 73.1% vs. 76.5% for A/(H1N1)pdm (p 0.49), 67.5% vs. 74.1% for A/H3N2 (p 0.17) and 84.2% vs. 85.2% for influenza B (p 0.80), respectively. Geometric mean titres after vaccination did not differ among groups: 117.32 (95% confidence interval (CI) 81.52, 168.83) vs. 87.43 (95% CI 72.87, 104.91) for A/(H1N1)pdm, 120.45 (95% CI 82.17, 176.57) vs. 97.86 (95% CI 81.34, 117.44) for A/H3N2 and 143.32 (95% CI 103.46, 198.53) vs. 145.54 (95% CI 122.35, 174.24) for influenza B, respectively. After adjusting for confounding factors, time since transplantation was not associated with response to vaccination. No cases of rejection or severe adverse events were detected in patients vaccinated within the first 6 months after transplantation. In conclusion, influenza vaccination within the first 6 months after transplantation is as safe and immunogenic as vaccination thereafter. Thus, administration of the influenza vaccine can be recommended as soon as 1 month after transplantation.
Published: 2015

42. Biomarker tools to design clinical vaccines determined from a study of annual listeriosis incidence in northern Spain

Author: Ricardo Calderón González, Hector Teran-Navarro, Jose Maria Marimon, Claudia Gonzalez-Rico, Jorge Calvo-Montes, Elisabet Frande Cabanes, Miriam Alkorta-Gurrutxaga, Carmen Fariñas, Luis Martinez-Martinez, Emilio Perez-Trallero, and Carmen Alvarez-Dominguez
Subjects: Infection Control, Listeria, Listeriosis, Zoonoses, Vaccines Carrier, Immunologic diseases. Allergy, RC581-607
Abstract: Two regions of northern Spain, Gipuzkoa and Cantabria present high annual incidence of listeriosis (1.86 and 1.71 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, respectively). We report that the high annual incidences are a consequence of infection with highly virulent L. monocytogenes isolates linked to fatal outcomes in elderly patients with cancer. In addition, listeriosis patients with cancer present low IL-17A/IL-6 ratios and significantly reduced levels of anti-GAPDH1-22 antibodies, identified as two novel biomarkers of poor prognosis. Analysis of these biomarkers may aid in reducing the incidence of listeriosis. Moreover, GAPDH1-22 activated monocyte derived dendritic cells of listeriosis patients with cancer seem useful tools to prepare clinical vaccines as they produce mainly Th1 cytokines.
Published: 2016
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43. Una imagen contemporánea de la endocarditis enterocócica

Author: Pericàs, Juan M., Jaume Llopis, Patricia Muñoz, Juan Gálvez Acebal, Martha Kestler, Maricela Valerio, Marta Hernández-Meneses, Miguel Goenaga, Manuel Cobo Belaustegui, Miguel Montejo, Guillermo Ojeda-Burgos, Dolores Sousa Regueiro, Arístides de Alarcón, Antonio Ramos-Martínez, Miró, José M., Fernando Fernández Sánchez, Mariam Noureddine, Gabriel Rosas, Javier de la Torre Lima, Roberto Blanco, María Victoria Boado, Marta Campaña Lázaro, Alejandro Crespo, Josune Goikoetxea, José Ramón Iruretagoyena, Josu Irurzun Zuazabal, Leire López-Soria, Javier Nieto, David Rodrigo, Regino Rodríguez, Yolanda Vitoria, Roberto Voces, Victoria García López, M., Radka Ivanova Georgieva, Guillermo Ojeda, Isabel Rodríguez Bailón, Josefa Ruiz Morales, Ana María Cuende, Tomás Echeverría, Ana Fuerte, Eduardo Gaminde, Miguel Ángel Goenaga, Pedro Idígoras, José Antonio Iribarren, Alberto Izaguirre Yarza, Xabier Kortajarena Urkola, Carlos Reviejo, Rafael Carrasco, Vicente Climent, Patricio Llamas, Esperanza Merino, Joaquín Plazas, Sergio Reus, Nemesio Álvarez, José María Bravo-Ferrer, Laura Castelo, José Cuenca, Pedro Llinares, Enrique Miguez Rey, María Rodríguez Mayo, Efrén Sánchez, Francisco Javier Martínez, Del Mar Alonso, M., Beatriz Castro, Dácil García Rosado, Del Carmen Durán, M., Antonia Miguel Gómez, M., Juan Lacalzada, Ibrahim Nassar, Antonio Plata Ciezar, Reguera Iglesias, José M., Víctor Asensi Álvarez, Carlos Costas, Jesús de la Hera, Jonnathan Fernández Suárez, Lisardo Iglesias Fraile, Víctor León Arguero, José López Menéndez, Pilar Mencia Bajo, Carlos Morales, Alfonso Moreno Torrico, Carmen Palomo, Begoña Paya Martínez, Ángeles Rodríguez Esteban, Raquel Rodríguez García, Mauricio Telenti Asensio, Manuel Almela, Juan Ambrosioni, Manuel Azqueta, Mercè Brunet, Marta Bodro, Ramón Cartañá, Carlos Falces, Guillermina Fita, David Fuster, Cristina García de la Mària, Delia García-Pares, Jaume Llopis Pérez, Francesc Marco, Asunción Moreno, David Nicolás, Salvador Ninot, Eduardo Quintana, Carlos Paré, Daniel Pereda, Pericás, Juan M., Pomar, José L., José Ramírez, Irene Rovira, Elena Sandoval, Marta Sitges, Dolors Soy, Adrián Téllez, Tolosana, José M., Bárbara Vidal, Jordi Vila, Iván Adán, Javier Bermejo, Emilio Bouza, Daniel Celemín, Gregorio Cuerpo Caballero, Antonia Delgado Montero, Ana García Mansilla, Eugenia García Leoni, M., Víctor González Ramallo, Martha Kestler Hernández, Amaia Mari Hualde, Mercedes Marín, Manuel Martínez-Sellés, Cristina Rincón, Hugo Rodríguez-Abella, Marta Rodríguez-Créixems, Blanca Pinilla, Ángel Pinto, Pilar Vázquez, Eduardo Verde Moreno, Isabel Antorrena, Belén Loeches, Alejandro Martín Quirós, Mar Moreno, Ulises Ramírez, Verónica Rial Bastón, María Romero, Araceli Saldaña, Jesús Agüero Balbín, Carlos Armiñanzas Castillo, Ana Arnaiz, Francisco Arnaiz de las Revillas, María Carmen Fariñas, Concepción Fariñas-Álvarez, Rubén Gómez Izquierdo, Iván García, Claudia González Rico, Manuel Gutiérrez-Cuadra, José Gutiérrez Díez, Marcos Pajarón, José Antonio Parra, Ramón Teira, Jesús Zarauza, Jorge Calderón Parra, Marta Cobo, Fernando Domínguez, Alberto Fortaleza, Pablo García Pavía, Jesús González, Ana Fernández Cruz, Elena Múñez, Antonio Ramos, Isabel Sánchez Romero, Tomasa Centella, José Manuel Hermida, José Luis Moya, Pilar Martín-Dávila, Enrique Navas, Enrique Oliva, Alejandro del Río, Jorge Rodríguez-Roda Stuart, Soledad Ruiz, Carmen Hidalgo Tenorio, Manuel Almendro Delia, Omar Araji, José Miguel Barquero, Román Calvo Jambrina, Marina de Cueto, Irene Méndez, Isabel Morales, Luis Eduardo López-Cortés, Emilio García, Juan Luis Haro, José Antonio Lepe, Francisco López, Rafael Luque, Luis Javier Alonso, Pedro Azcárate, José Manuel Azcona Gutiérrez, José Ramón Blanco, Antonio Cabrera Villegas, Lara García-Álvarez, José Antonio Oteo, Mercedes Sanz, Natividad Benito, Mercé Gurguí, Cristina Pacho, Roser Pericas, Guillem Pons, Álvarez, M., Fernández, A. L., Amparo Martínez, Prieto, A., Benito Regueiro, Tijeira, E., Marino Vega, Andrés Canut Blasco, José Cordo Mollar, Juan Carlos Gainzarain Arana, Oscar García Uriarte, Alejandro Martín López, Zuriñe Ortiz de Zárate, José Antonio Urturi Matos, García Domínguez Gloria, Sánchez Porto Antonio, Arribas Leal, José M., Elisa García Vázquez, Alicia Hernández Torres, Ana Blázquez, Gonzalo de la Morena Valenzuela, Ángel Alonso, Javier Aramburu, Felicitas Elena Calvo, Anai Moreno Rodríguez, Paola Tarabini-Castellani, Eva Heredero Gálvez, Carolina Maicas Bellido, José Largo Pau, Antonia Sepúlveda, M., Pilar Toledano Sierra, Sadaf Zafar Iqbal-Mirza, Eva Cascales Alcolea, Ivan Keituqwa Yañez, Julián Navarro Martínez, Ana Peláez Ballesta, Eduardo Moreno Escobar, Alejandro Peña Monje, Valme Sánchez Cabrera, David Vinuesa García, María Arrizabalaga Asenjo, Carmen Cifuentes Luna, Juana Núñez Morcillo, Cruz Pérez Seco, M., Aroa Villoslada Gelabert, Carmen Aured Guallar, Nuria Fernández Abad, Pilar García Mangas, Marta Matamala Adell, Pilar Palacián Ruiz, M., Juan Carlos Porres, Begoña Alcaraz Vidal, Nazaret Cobos Trigueros, María Jesús Del Amor Espín, José Antonio Giner Caro, Roberto Jiménez Sánchez, Amaya Jimeno Almazán, Alejandro Ortín Freire, Monserrat Viqueira González, Pere Pericás Ramis, Ángels Ribas Blanco, M., Enrique Ruiz de Gopegui Bordes, Laura Vidal Bonet, Carmen Bellón Munera, M., Elena Escribano Garaizabal, Antonia Tercero Martínez, Juan Carlos Segura Luque, Cristina Badía, Lucía Boix Palop, Mariona Xercavins, Sónia Ibars, Eloy Gómez Nebreda, Ibalia Horcajada Herrera, Irene Menduiña Gallego, Héctor Marrero Santiago, Isabel de Miguel Martínez, Elena Pisos Álamo, Carmen Díaz Pedroche, Fernando Chaves, Santiago de Cossío, Francisco López Medrano, Jesús López, M., Javier Solera, Jorge Solís, Carmen Ardanuy, Guillermo Cuervo Requena, Sara Grillo, and Alejandro Ruiz Majoral

44. Characteristics and outcome of Streptococcus pneumoniae endocarditis in the XXI Century: a systematic review of 111 cases (2000-2013)

Author: Emilio Bouza, Víctor José González Ramallo, Víctor Asensi Álvarez, Claudia González-Rico, Francesc Marco, Eduard Quintana, Leyre López-Soria, Pilar Martín-Dávila, Ana Fernández-Cruz, Juan Gálvez-Acebal, Carlos Cervera, Lara García-Álvarez, José Ignacio Aramendi, Natividad Benito, Jose A. Lepe, Patricia Carmen Muñoz García, Juan M Pericas, Jonathan Fernández-Suárez, Benito Regueiro, and Universitat de Barcelona
Subjects: Aortic valve, Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Streptococcus pneumonia, Adolescent, Epidemiology, Comorbidity, Opportunistic Infections, medicine.disease_cause, Pneumococcal Infections, Immunocompromised Host, Young Adult, Comorbiditat, Internal medicine, Streptococcus pneumoniae, medicine, Endocarditis, Humans, Medicaments antibacterians, Cardiac Surgical Procedures, Espanya, Epidemiologia, Aged, business.industry, Pneumococs, Austrian syndrome, Mortality rate, General Medicine, Endocarditis, Bacterial, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Surgery, Anti-Bacterial Agents, Pneumococcal infections, medicine.anatomical_structure, Antibacterial agents, Spain, Cohort, Female, business, Meningitis, Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Research Article
Abstract: Streptococcus pneumoniae is an infrequent cause of severe infectious endocarditis (IE). The aim of our study was to describe the epidemiology, clinical and microbiological characteristics, and outcome of a series of cases of S. pneumoniae IE diagnosed in Spain and in a series of cases published since 2000 in the medical literature. We prospectively collected all cases of IE diagnosed in a multicenter cohort of patients from 27 Spanish hospitals (n = 2539). We also performed a systematic review of the literature since 2000 and retrieved all cases with complete clinical data using a pre-established protocol. Predictors of mortality were identified using a logistic regression model. We collected 111 cases of pneumococcal IE: 24 patients from the Spanish cohort and 87 cases from the literature review. Median age was 51 years, and 23 patients (20.7%) were under 15 years. Men accounted for 64% of patients, and infection was community-acquired in 96.4% of cases. The most important underlying conditions were liver disease (27.9%) and immunosuppression (10.8%). A predisposing heart condition was present in only 18 patients (16.2%). Pneumococcal IE affected a native valve in 93.7% of patients. Left-sided endocarditis predominated (aortic valve 53.2% and mitral valve 40.5%). The microbiological diagnosis was obtained from blood cultures in 84.7% of cases. In the Spanish cohort, nonsusceptibility to penicillin was detected in 4.2%. The most common clinical manifestations included fever (71.2%), a new heart murmur (55%), pneumonia (45.9%), meningitis (40.5%), and Austrian syndrome (26.1%). Cardiac surgery was performed in 47.7% of patients. The in-hospital mortality rate was 20.7%. The multivariate analysis revealed the independent risk factors for mortality to be meningitis (OR, 4.3; 95% CI, 1.4–12.9; P

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