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First Report of Treatment-Emergent Resistance to Cefepime-Zidebactam in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 9 Feb 2026
Dorazio Ava J, Aitken Samuel L, Pierce Virginia M, Kline Ellen G, Squires Kevin M, Pogue Jason M, Shields Ryan K
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We describe the first case of cefepime-zidebactam treatment-emergent resistance associated with clinical failure in a patient with Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia. During treatment, cefepime-zidebactam minimum inhibitory concentrations increased from 8/8 to 32/32 mg/L. Whole-genome sequence analysis showed new mutations in the MexAB-OprM efflux operon that were associated with cross-resistance to...
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