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. 2021 Feb 21;10(2):214.
doi: 10.3390/antibiotics10020214.

Role of Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing before First-Line Treatment Containing Clarithromycin for Helicobacter pylori Eradication in the Clinical Setting

Seokin Kang  1 , Yuri Kim  1 , Ji Yong Ahn  1 , Hwoon-Yong Jung  1 , Nayoung Kim  2 , Hee Kyong Na  1 , Jeong Hoon Lee  1 , Kee Wook Jung  1 , Do Hoon Kim  1 , Kee Don Choi  1 , Ho June Song  1 , Gin Hyug Lee  1
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Role of Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing before First-Line Treatment Containing Clarithromycin for Helicobacter pylori Eradication in the Clinical Setting

Seokin Kang et al. Antibiotics (Basel). .

Abstract

Background: Checking Helicobacter pylori susceptibility tests in the clinical setting before first-line treatment is considered difficult. We compared susceptibility-guided therapy (SGT) with empirical therapy (ET) as a first-line treatment containing clarithromycin and investigated the eradication rate using antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST).

Methods: 257 patients with H. pylori infection, with AST, performed before the eradication of clarithromycin-containing regimens were enrolled and divided into two groups: the SGT and ET groups.

Results: Eradication rates in the SGT and ET groups were 85.4% and 58.4% (P < 0.01), respectively. In triple therapy (TT), eradication rates of the SGT and ET groups were 85.1% and 56.6% (P < 0.01), respectively. In sequential therapy (SET), eradication rates of the SGT and ET groups were 86.2% and 65.6% (P = 0.06), respectively. According to AST, TT had an eradication rate of 84.6% with strains susceptible to clarithromycin and amoxicillin and 11.1% with strains resistant to both. SET had an eradication rate of 89.5% with strains susceptible to clarithromycin, amoxicillin, and metronidazole, whereas it was 0% with strains resistant to clarithromycin and metronidazole.

Conclusions: SGT as first-line treatment improved eradication rates of TT and SET by 28.5 (P < 0.01) and 20.6 (P = 0.06) percent points, respectively, compared with ET.

Keywords: Helicobacter infection; Helicobacter pylori; clarithromycin; microbial drug resistance; microbial sensitivity tests.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Comparison of the eradication rates between triple therapy and sequential therapy according to clarithromycin susceptibility.
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Flowchart of the process of patient enrollment.
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Comparison of the eradication rates between the susceptibility-guided therapy group and the empirical therapy group.
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Antimicrobial susceptibility of the susceptibility-guided therapy and the empirical therapy groups. CLR, clarithromycin; AMX, amoxicillin; MDZ, metronidazole; S, susceptible; R, resistant.
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