Clinical trial NCT01209247: Emergence of Fluoroquinolone Resistance in Commensal Flora
Official title: Emergence of Fluoroquinolone Resistance in the Commensal Flora of Patients Receiving Fluoroquinolone Treatment.
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: All Types of Infections
Keywords: Fluoroquinolone -resistance
Commensal flora
Emergence of resistance
Lead sponsor: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2010-09-27
Enrollment: 571
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The emergence of resistance to fluoroquinolone (FQ) is a major problem worldwide. The commensal flora is the main reservoir for antibiotic resistance. Understanding the factors (environmental, patient-related, dosis-related, drug-related...) involved in the emergence of resistance to fluoroquinolones in the commensal flora of patients treated with a FQ, may help prevent it and preserve the efficiency of these important antibiotics. Samples of rectal, nasal and pharyngeal flora will be collected from hospitalized patients before receiving a FQ, at the end of the treatment and 1 month after the end of treatment. Clinical data will be collected. The incidence and risk-factors associated with the emergence of resistance to FQ will be assessed by comparing groups with and without resistance both at the end of treatment and 1 month later.

Detailed description: Population involved: Patients hospitalized (\>1day) in one of the two participating university hospitals and receiving a treatment by a fluoroquinolone (FQ) antibiotic.

Number of centers : 2 (SAINT LOUIS and BEAUJON Hospitals, ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HOPITAUX DE PARIS, Paris, France).

Expected number of patients : 720

Aim : To study the incidence and risk-factors involved in the emergence of resistance to FQ in the commensal flora during and after treatment by a FQ.

Methods: Nasal, rectal and pharyngeal swabs were performed before, during, and one month after the end of FQ treatment. Microbiological analysis will focus on 3 target bacterial species: Escherichia coli from the faecal flora, alpha-haemolytic streptococci from the pharyngeal flora and non-coagulase staphylococci in the nasal flora. Patients carrying resistance at day 0 in all three flora will be excluded. The incidence and risk-factors of the emergence of resistance to FQ will be assessed at the end of treatment by FQ and 1 month after the end of treatment. Patients having resistant bacteria in their flora at the end and/or after treatment will be compared with those with no resistance.

The same swabs will be collected from a reference group of patients not receiving FQ treatment, but hospitalized in the same wards at the same time as the case patients in order to eventually detect horizontal transmission of FQ-resistant strains in the hospital ward.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Hospitalisation \>24hours in one of the participating wards Treatment by a fluoroquinolone antibiotic.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Pregnancy or breast feeding Patients refusal to participate

Primary outcomes:
measure: emergence of fluoroquinolone-resistance
timeFrame: 4 months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Paris
country: France
facility: De Lastours Victoire
Study officials:
affiliation: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
name: De Lastours Victoire
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: de Lastours V, Chau F, Roy C, Larroque B, Fantin B. Emergence of quinolone resistance in the microbiota of hospitalized patients treated or not with a fluoroquinolone. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2014 Dec;69(12):3393-400. doi: 10.1093/jac/dku283. Epub 2014 Jul 24.