• Curr Med Res Opin · Aug 2019

    New antibiotics for the treatment of serious infections in intensive care unit patients.

    • Sebastiano Leone, Marco Cascella, Ilaria Pezone, and Marco Fiore.
    • a Division of Infectious Diseases , " San Giuseppe Moscati" Hospital , Avellino , Italy.
    • Curr Med Res Opin. 2019 Aug 1; 35 (8): 1331-1334.

    AbstractObjective: Nowadays, the infections of patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) are a major public health problem; this is due to several factors, in primis an increase in antibiotic resistance and the inappropriate use of antibiotics. Methods: We briefly focus on on both new antibiotics approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in the last decade (2010-2019), and on agents in an advanced phase of development that have been developed, or are already approved, for the treatment of serious infections due to multidrug-resistant bacteria, both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. Results: An adequate knowledge of the new antibiotics will reduce their inappropriate use with the consequent reduction in the onset of new resistance and decreasing health care costs. Conclusion: Antimicrobial stewardship programs to optimize antimicrobial prescribing and to preserve the effectiveness of the new antimicrobial agents are urgently needed'.

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