Ceftazidime-Avibactam for the Treatment of Infections Due to Ceftazidime Resistant Pathogens

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2014-09-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

To Evaluate the Effects of Ceftazidime-Avibactam and Best Available Therapy in patients with complicated urinary tract infections and complicated intra-abdominal infections.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: AstraZeneca; Pfizer
• Collaborator: Forest Laboratories
• Treatments: Anti-Infective Agents; Avibactam; Avibactam, ceftazidime drug combination; Ceftazidime; Metronidazole

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patient must be ≥18 and ≤90 years of age

• Female patients can participate if they are surgically sterile or completed menopause or females capable of having children and agree not to attempt pregnancy while receiving IV study therapy and for a period of 7 days after

• Patient has a ceftazidime-resistant Gram negative pathogen that was isolated from an appropriate culture within 5 days prior to study entry (ie, within 5 days prior to Screening; the study-qualifying culture), which was determined to be the causative agent of the entry infection

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient has an APACHE II score >30 (cIAI patients only)

• Patient has an infection due to Gram negative pathogen that is unlikely to respond to CAZ-AVI treatment (eg, Acinetobacter spp., Stenotrophomonas spp.)

• Patient is receiving hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis or had a renal transplant Patient is immunocompromised

• Patient has a rapidly progressive or terminal illness with a high risk of mortality due to any cause, including acute hepatic failure, respiratory failure or severe septic shock such that they are unlikely to survive the 4- to 5-week study period.