Hengel Richard L, Ritter Timothy E, Nathan Ramesh V, Van Anglen Lucinda J, Schroeder Claudia P, Dillon Ryan J, Marcella Stephen W, Garey Kevin W
Atlanta ID Group, Atlanta, Georgia.
GI Alliance, Southlake, Texas, USA.
Open Forum Infect Dis. 2020 Mar 19;7(4):ofaa097. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa097. eCollection 2020 Apr.
BACKGROUND: Bezlotoxumab is approved for prevention of recurrence of infection (CDI) in adults receiving standard of care (SoC) therapy based on findings from MODIFY clinical trials. However, utilization practices and validation of trial results in the real world are limited. METHODS: Records of patients receiving bezlotoxumab between April 2017 and December 2018 across 34 infusion centers in the United States were retrospectively reviewed. Recurrent CDI (rCDI), defined as diarrhea lasting ≥2 days resulting in treatment, was assessed 90 days postbezlotoxumab. RESULTS: The study cohort included 200 patients (median age, 70 years; 66% female; median Charlson comorbidity index, 5), of whom 86% (n = 173) had prior CDI episodes and 79% (n = 158) had ≥2 risk factors for rCDI. SoC antibiotics included vancomycin (n = 137, 68%), fidaxomicin (n = 60, 30%), and metronidazole (n = 3, 2%). Median time from stool test to bezlotoxumab and initiation of SoC to bezlotoxumab were 15 days and 11 days, respectively. Within 90 days, 31 of 195 patients (15.9%) experienced rCDI, which corresponds to a success rate of 84.1%. Patients with ≥2 CDI recurrences prebezlotoxumab had a higher risk of subsequent rCDI compared with those with 1 recurrence or primary CDI (hazard ratio, 2.77; 95% confidence interval, 1.14-6.76; .025). CONCLUSIONS: This real-world multicenter study demonstrated successful prevention of rCDI with bezlotoxumab comparable to clinical trial results regardless of type of SoC and timing of infusion. Multiple prior CDI recurrences were associated with a higher risk of subsequent rCDI, supporting the use of bezlotoxumab earlier in the disease course.
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