Rates of antimicrobial resistance are increasing worldwide. There is increasing evidence that physiological gut microbiota is a large reservoir of antibiotic-resistance genes. Healthy gut microbiota is known to prevent the colonization of the gastrointestinal tract by pathogens, the so-called mechanism of colonization resistance, but this protective mechanism can be altered by therapies that impair gut microbiota, including antibiotics with consequent colonization of gut pathogens, including carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE). CRE carriers represent an epidemiological threat to other hospitalized patients and to the whole community, but are also at risk of developing clinical consequences of this colonization, including bloodstream infections from these pathogens. Neomycin has shown high efficacy in the eradication of CRE invitro. Neomycin has also been approved to treat hepatic coma by eradicating bacterial in gastrointestinal tract. Therefore, this evidence suggests that this procedure could be useful in eradicating CRE. However, current evidence is mostly limited. The aim of this study is to investigate the efficacy of Neomycin, compared with no intervention in eradicating gut colonization from CRE.
Age range
18 Years – 95 Years
Sex
ALL
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Number of patients with microbiological eradication at 2 weeks after neomycin administration
Timeframe: 2 weeks