A Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Intravenous Ceftaroline Versus Intravenous Ceftriaxone in the Treatment of Adult Hospitalised Patients With Community-Acquired Bacterial Pneumonia in Asia

Summary

This purpose of this study is to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Intravenous Ceftaroline Versus Intravenous Ceftriaxone in the Treatment of Adult Hospitalised Patients With Community-Acquired Bacterial Pneumonia in Asia.

Timeline

Start

2011-12

Primary completion

2013-05

Completion

2013-05

Outcome

Met primary endpoint

paper 217 (84%) of 258 patients in the ceftaroline fosamil group and 178 (74%) of 240 patients in the ceftriaxone group were clinically cured PMID 25539586 ↗

paper difference 9·9%, 95% CI 2·8-17·1 PMID 25539586 ↗

paper The superiority of ceftaroline fosamil was consistent across all preplanned patient subgroup analyses PMID 25539586 ↗

Publications

• Zhuo C, Huang Y, Liu W, Xu JF, Zhu WY, Stone GG, Yan JL, Mohamed N. Efficacy and Safety of Ceftaroline Fosamil in Hospitalized Patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia in China: Subset Analysis of an International Phase 3 Randomized Controlled Trial. Infect Drug Resist. 2022 Feb 23;15:605-617. doi: 10.2147/IDR.S342558. eCollection 2022.
• Dryden M, Kantecki M, Yan JL, Stone GG, Leister-Tebbe H, Wilcox M. Treatment outcomes of secondary bacteraemia in patients treated with ceftaroline fosamil: pooled results from six phase III clinical trials. J Glob Antimicrob Resist. 2022 Mar;28:108-114. doi: 10.1016/j.jgar.2021.10.027. Epub 2021 Dec 16.
• Li J, Das S, Zhou D, Al-Huniti N. Population Pharmacokinetic Modeling and Probability of Target Attainment Analyses in Asian Patients With Community-Acquired Pneumonia Treated With Ceftaroline Fosamil. Clin Pharmacol Drug Dev. 2019 Jul;8(5):682-694. doi: 10.1002/cpdd.673. Epub 2019 May 1.
• Cheng K, Pypstra R, Yan JL, Hammond J. Summary of the safety and tolerability of two treatment regimens of ceftaroline fosamil: 600 mg every 8 h versus 600 mg every 12 h. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2019 Apr 1;74(4):1086-1091. doi: 10.1093/jac/dky519.
• Das S, Li J, Iaconis J, Zhou D, Stone GG, Yan JL, Melnick D. Ceftaroline fosamil doses and breakpoints for Staphylococcus aureus in complicated skin and soft tissue infections. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2019 Feb 1;74(2):425-431. doi: 10.1093/jac/dky439.
• Taboada M, Melnick D, Iaconis JP, Sun F, Zhong NS, File TM, Llorens L, Friedland HD, Wilson D. Ceftaroline fosamil versus ceftriaxone for the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia: individual patient data meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2016 Apr;71(4):862-70. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkv415. Epub 2015 Dec 24.
• Zhong NS, Sun T, Zhuo C, D'Souza G, Lee SH, Lan NH, Chiang CH, Wilson D, Sun F, Iaconis J, Melnick D. Ceftaroline fosamil versus ceftriaxone for the treatment of Asian patients with community-acquired pneumonia: a randomised, controlled, double-blind, phase 3, non-inferiority with nested superiority trial. Lancet Infect Dis. 2015 Feb;15(2):161-71. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(14)71018-7. Epub 2014 Dec 22.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Subject	Ceftaroline fosamil	Other / unclassified	600 mg	Intravenous
Comparator	Ceftriaxone	Other / unclassified	2 g	Intravenous

Indications