Multicenter Open-label Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) to Compare Colistin Alone Versus Colistin Plus Meropenem

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the addition of meropenem to colistin is better than colistin alone in the treatment of clinically significant infections caused by multi-drug resistant bacteria

Timeline

Start

2013-03

Primary completion

2017-01-31

Completion

2017-02-28

Outcome

Missed primary endpoint

paper No significant difference between colistin monotherapy (156/198, 79%) and combination therapy (152/208, 73%) was observed for clinical failure at 14 days after randomisation PMID 29456043 ↗

Publications

• Nutman A, Temkin E, Lellouche J, Amar Ben Dalak M, Kaplan E, Lurie-Weinberger M, Dishon Benattar Y, Neuberger A, Stern A, Daitch V, Eliakim-Raz N, Durante-Mangoni E, Bernardo M, Iossa D, Daikos G, Skiada A, Pavleas I, Friberg L, Theuretzbacher U, Leibovici L, Paul M, Carmeli Y; AIDA Study Group. Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) acquisition and molecular characterization following colistin monotherapy and colistin-meropenem combination therapy: findings from the AIDA randomized trial. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control. 2025 Nov 5;14(1):133. doi: 10.1186/s13756-025-01651-1.
• Daitch V, Paul M, Daikos GL, Durante-Mangoni E, Yahav D, Carmeli Y, Benattar YD, Skiada A, Andini R, Eliakim-Raz N, Nutman A, Zusman O, Antoniadou A, Cavezza G, Adler A, Dickstein Y, Pavleas I, Zampino R, Bitterman R, Zayyad H, Koppel F, Zak-Doron Y, Levi I, Babich T, Turjeman A, Ben-Zvi H, Friberg LE, Mouton JW, Theuretzbacher U, Leibovici L. Excluded versus included patients in a randomized controlled trial of infections caused by carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative bacteria: relevance to external validity. BMC Infect Dis. 2021 Mar 31;21(1):309. doi: 10.1186/s12879-021-05995-y.
• Dickstein Y, Lellouche J, Ben Dalak Amar M, Schwartz D, Nutman A, Daitch V, Yahav D, Leibovici L, Skiada A, Antoniadou A, Daikos GL, Andini R, Zampino R, Durante-Mangoni E, Mouton JW, Friberg LE, Dishon Benattar Y, Bitterman R, Neuberger A, Carmeli Y, Paul M; AIDA Study Group. Treatment Outcomes of Colistin- and Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Infections: An Exploratory Subgroup Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial. Clin Infect Dis. 2019 Aug 16;69(5):769-776. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciy988.
• Paul M, Daikos GL, Durante-Mangoni E, Yahav D, Carmeli Y, Benattar YD, Skiada A, Andini R, Eliakim-Raz N, Nutman A, Zusman O, Antoniadou A, Pafundi PC, Adler A, Dickstein Y, Pavleas I, Zampino R, Daitch V, Bitterman R, Zayyad H, Koppel F, Levi I, Babich T, Friberg LE, Mouton JW, Theuretzbacher U, Leibovici L. Colistin alone versus colistin plus meropenem for treatment of severe infections caused by carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative bacteria: an open-label, randomised controlled trial. Lancet Infect Dis. 2018 Apr;18(4):391-400. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(18)30099-9. Epub 2018 Feb 16.
• Dickstein Y, Leibovici L, Yahav D, Eliakim-Raz N, Daikos GL, Skiada A, Antoniadou A, Carmeli Y, Nutman A, Levi I, Adler A, Durante-Mangoni E, Andini R, Cavezza G, Mouton JW, Wijma RA, Theuretzbacher U, Friberg LE, Kristoffersson AN, Zusman O, Koppel F, Dishon Benattar Y, Altunin S, Paul M; AIDA consortium. Multicentre open-label randomised controlled trial to compare colistin alone with colistin plus meropenem for the treatment of severe infections caused by carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative infections (AIDA): a study protocol. BMJ Open. 2016 Apr 20;6(4):e009956. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-009956.

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