Imipenem-Relebactam and Aztreonam-Avibactam: What Do Clinical and Public Health Microbiologists Need to Know?
Novel antimicrobial agents like imipenem-relebactam (IMR), aztreonam-avibactam (AZT-AVI), and cefiderocol have been recently added to the antimicrobial armamentarium to combat multidrug resistant gram-negative infections. Guidelines for clinical microbiology laboratories regarding cefiderocol were addressed in the July 2020 CLSI AST News Update and included questions a laboratory should consider when deciding how to approach testing of these new agents. This current issue provides an update on IMR and AZT-AVI. AZT-AVI will be discussed in terms of in vitro testing and its investigational use for specific multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) as it is not currently US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved for clinical use.
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