Microbiological, Clinical, and Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic Data to Support EUCAST Aztreonam–Avibactam Minimum Inhibitory Concentration Susceptibility Breakpoints Against Enterobacterales
Bibliographic record
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Aztreonam-avibactam was approved for adults with limited treatment options for multiple infections due to aerobic Gram-negative organisms in the European Union and for complicated intra-abdominal infection in the US, following the phase 3 REVISIT and ASSEMBLE trials. The European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) assigned minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) breakpoints for aztreonam-avibactam against Enterobacterales of susceptible ≤ 4 mg/l and resistant > 4 mg/l. METHODS: A comprehensive synthesis of data supporting MIC breakpoint determination is summarized, including: joint probability of pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic target attainment (JPTA) analyses (based on population pharmacokinetic modeling) for aztreonam-avibactam dose selection; MIC distributions of target pathogens; clinical and microbiological efficacy outcomes; and exposure-response analyses. RESULTS: Among 100,228 Enterobacterales isolates, including 2449 metallo-β-lactamase-positive isolates from global surveillance studies (2017-2021), 99% had aztreonam-avibactam MICs of ≤ 8 mg/l. At MIC = 8 mg/l, the predicted JPTA at steady state was 89% to > 99% across subgroups of varying renal function, based on approved doses for aztreonam-avibactam. Clinical trial isolates fell within the same MIC distribution as surveillance studies. There was no evidence of decreased favorable microbiological responses with increasing aztreonam-avibactam MICs in clinical trials; however, in the clinical dataset, there were few Enterobacterales isolates with aztreonam-avibactam MICs of > 4 mg/l. CONCLUSIONS: MIC distributions and JPTA simulations supported a susceptible MIC breakpoint for aztreonam-avibactam against Enterobacterales of ≤ 8 mg/l. However, limited clinical outcomes data for Enterobacterales with aztreonam-avibactam MIC ≥ 4 mg/l justified the more conservative breakpoints established by EUCAST. CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT03329092 and NCT03580044. Studies/analyses sponsored by Pfizer.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.013 | 0.026 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".