HERMES RYOITI HIGASHINO

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Instituto Central, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina - Médico
LIM/49 - Laboratório de Protozoologia, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina

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  • article 2 Citação(ões) na Scopus
    Impact of Discontinuing Levofloxacin Prophylaxis on Bloodstream Infections in Neutropenic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Patients
    (2022) GUIMARAES, Thais; BORGES, Igor Carmo; SPADAO, Fernanda de Souza; MARIANO, Livia; NASCIMENTO, Marina de Mattos; HIGASHINO, Hermes; ROSSI, Flavia; ROCHA, Vanderson; COSTA, Silvia Figueiredo
    Multidrug-resistant pathogens have emerged worldwide. We have driven the hypothesis that the non-use of fluoroquinolone prophylaxis during neutropenia could reduce antibiotic resistance in Gram-negative bacteria that cause bloodstream infections (BSIs) in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) patients and that this change in resistance pattern could lead to an impact on BSI mortality. This is a quasi-experimental study comparing BSI incidence, resistance patterns of bacteria that cause BSI, and BSI mortality when levofloxacin prophylaxis was routine for neutropenic HSCT patients (2016-2018) to when fluoroquinolone prophylaxis was discontinued in our center (2019). Bivariate comparisons and multivariate logistic regression models were used for analyses. A total of 310 HSCTs (66 (21%) allogeneic and 244 (79%) autologous) were performed during the study period. Sixty (19%) patients had BSIs, 30 in each evaluated period. The discontinuation of levofloxacin prophylaxis was associated with an increase in BSI incidence and a decrease in the resistance rates of causative BSI bacteria and in BSI 30-day mortality. The increase in the rate of resistant bacteria causing BSI and in BSI mortality might outweigh the benefits of a decrease in BSI incidence caused by fluoroquinolone prophylaxis in neutropenic HSCT patients. We suggest that the routine use of fluoroquinolone in this context be revisited.
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    Colonization by Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase-Producing Enterobacterales and Bacteremia in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients
    (2024) GONCALVES, Luiza Arcas; ANJOS, Beatriz Barbosa; TAVARES, Bruno Melo; MARCHI, Ana Paula; CORTES, Marina Farrel; HIGASHINO, Hermes Ryoiti; MORAES, Bruna del Guerra de Carvalho; BAMPI, Jose Victor Bortolotto; PINHEIRO, Liliane Dantas; SPADAO, Fernanda de Souza; ROCHA, Vanderson; GUIMARAES, Thais; COSTA, Silvia Figueiredo
    Background: Assessing the risk of multidrug-resistant colonization and infections is pivotal for optimizing empirical therapy in hematopoietic stem cell transplants (HSCTs). Limited data exist on extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacterales (ESBL-E) colonization in this population. This study aimed to assess whether ESBL-E colonization constitutes a risk factor for ESBL-E bloodstream infection (BSI) and to evaluate ESBL-E colonization in HSCT recipients. Methods: A retrospective analysis of ESBL-E colonization and BSI in HSCT patients was conducted from August 2019 to June 2022. Weekly swabs were collected and cultured on chromogenic selective media, with PCR identifying the beta-lactamase genes. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and whole-genome sequencing (WGS) assessed the colonizing strains' similarities. Results: Of 222 evaluated HSCT patients, 59.45% were colonized by ESBL-E, with 48.4% at admission. The predominant beta-lactamase genes were blaTEM (52%) and blaSHV (20%). PFGE analysis did not reveal predominant clusters in 26 E. coli and 15 K. pneumoniae strains. WGS identified ST16 and ST11 as the predominant sequence types among K. pneumoniae. Thirty-three patients developed thirty-five Enterobacterales-BSIs, with nine being third-generation cephalosporin-resistant. No association was found between ESBL-E colonization and ESBL-BSI (p = 0.087). Conclusions: Although the patients presented a high colonization rate of ESBL-E upon admission, no association between colonization and infection were found. Thus, it seems that ESBL screening is not a useful strategy to assess risk factors and guide therapy for ESBL-BSI in HSCT-patients.