Intravenous Polymyxin B as Adjunctive Therapy to High-Dose Tigecycline for the Treatment of Nosocomial Pneumonia Due to Carbapenem-Resistant <i>Acinetobacter baumannii</i> and <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i>: A Propensity Score-Matched Cohort Study

• Main Authors: Lei Zha (Author), Xue Zhang (Author), Yusheng Cheng (Author), Qiancheng Xu (Author), Lingxi Liu (Author), Simin Chen (Author), Zhiwei Lu (Author), Jun Guo (Author), Boris Tefsen (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Although the combination of polymyxin and tigecycline is widely used in treating carbapenem-resistant bacterial infections, the benefit of this combination is still uncertain. To assess whether adding polymyxin B to the high-dose tigecycline regimen would result in better clinical outcomes than the...