ABSTRACT
Tigecycline Evaluation and Surveillance Trial (TEST) is an international surveillance study designed to assess the in vitro activity of tigecycline and 11 comparators against a range of important clinical pathogens from both the community and the hospital. The updated data obtained from the TEST program are integrated in a database server and available with a web application. The website has been designed to disseminate data collected from the international TEST program to the medical community and has been developed to be user-friendly. The use of this program-specific website can be made in a timely manner to extract antimicrobial resistance data of major microorganisms based on chosen selection criteria. This article describes how to use this web-based program for different analyse-types and the multiple options to display search results. Data can be presented in a table or as a graph or diagram, according to the source of the isolate, type of unit, resistance pattern of the pathogen. The website also allows the user to compare the data of antimicrobial testing at a national or regional level. It provides within a few minutes details on the activity of tigecycline and 11 comparators against clinical isolates collected all around the world. Main results of the TEST program on the in vitro activities of tigecyline against more 65,000 clinical isolates throughout the world are presented. The internet gives infectious diseases specialists and microbiologists the opportunity to have immediate access to continuously updated surveillance data. The TEST website should be helpful to clinicians to better select agents in severe infections, particularly for empirical treatment, that is at a time when the choice of the most appropriate antibiotic is essential for the outcome of the patient.
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Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use , Databases, Factual , Drug Resistance, Microbial , Internet , Microbial Sensitivity Tests/statistics & numerical data , Minocycline/analogs & derivatives , Population Surveillance , Software , Anti-Bacterial Agents/pharmacology , Community-Acquired Infections/drug therapy , Community-Acquired Infections/microbiology , Cross Infection/drug therapy , Cross Infection/microbiology , Data Display , Drug Evaluation, Preclinical , Global Health , Humans , Information Dissemination , Minocycline/pharmacology , Minocycline/therapeutic use , Quality Control , Species Specificity , TigecyclineABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this multicentric, randomized, double blind study with direct individual benefit, was to compare two therapeutic regimens of cefotiam hexetil administration, 5 days vs 10 days, in acute maxillary sinusitis. METHOD: The study was conducted in ambulatory patients treated by general practitioners according to AFSAPS (French agency for sanitary safety) guidelines for treatment of acute maxillary sinusitis. Five hundred and fifty three GPs included 1042 patients presenting with acute maxillary sinusitis in the study from December 2000 to July 2001. Patients were randomly treated with cefotiam hexetil 200 mg bid over a 5 day period followed by 5 days of placebo, or with cefotiam hexetil 200 mg bid over a 10 day period. RESULTS: No significant difference was noted in each treatment group. Radiography performed in 72.2% of included patients confirmed the diagnosis in 78.8% of the cases. No significant difference occurred in the number and percentage of cured patients. In the ITT analysis (1018 patients) the clinical cure rates were respectively 85.5% and 85.3% in the 5 day and in the 10 day treatment groups, In the PP analysis (800 patients) the clinical cure rates were respectively 88.6% in each group. The low incidence of adverse effects (3.36%) was confirmed in both groups. CONCLUSION: A 5 day course of cefotiam hexetil 200 mg bid is as effective as a 10 day course in the treatment of acute maxillary sinusitis in adults.
