Evaluating the relationship between ciprofloxacin prescription and non-susceptibility in Salmonella Typhi in Blantyre, Malawi: an observational study
<p><strong>Background</strong> Ciprofloxacin is the first-line drug for treating typhoid fever in many countries in Africa with a high disease burden, but the emergence of non-susceptibility poses a challenge to public health programmes. Through enhanced surveillance as part of vac...
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| author | Ashton, PM Chunga Chirambo, A Meiring, JE Patel, PD Mbewe, M Silungwe, N Chizani, K Banda, H Heyderman, RS Dyson, ZA MacPherson, P Henrion, MYR STRATAA Study Group Holt, KE Gordon, MA |
| author2 | Pollard, A |
| author_facet | Pollard, A Ashton, PM Chunga Chirambo, A Meiring, JE Patel, PD Mbewe, M Silungwe, N Chizani, K Banda, H Heyderman, RS Dyson, ZA MacPherson, P Henrion, MYR STRATAA Study Group Holt, KE Gordon, MA |
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| description | <p><strong>Background</strong> Ciprofloxacin is the first-line drug for treating typhoid fever in many countries in Africa with a high disease burden, but the emergence of non-susceptibility poses a challenge to public health programmes. Through enhanced surveillance as part of vaccine evaluation, we investigated the occurrence and potential determinants of ciprofloxacin non-susceptibility in Blantyre, Malawi.</p>
<p><strong>Methods</strong> We conducted systematic surveillance of typhoid fever cases and antibiotic prescription in two health centres in Blantyre, Malawi, between Oct 1, 2016, and Oct 31, 2019, as part of the STRATAA and TyVAC studies. In addition, blood cultures were taken from eligible patients presenting at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, as part of routine diagnosis. Inclusion criteria were measured or reported fever, or clinical suspicion of sepsis. Microbiologically, we identified <i>Salmonella enterica</i> serotype Typhi (<i>S</i> Typhi) isolates with a ciprofloxacin non-susceptible phenotype from blood cultures, and used whole-genome sequencing to identify drug-resistance mutations and phylogenetic relationships. We constructed generalised linear regression models to investigate associations between the number of ciprofloxacin prescriptions given per month to study participants and the proportion of S Typhi isolates with quinolone resistance-determining region (QRDR) mutations in the following month.</p>
<p><strong>Findings</strong> From 46 989 blood cultures from Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, 502 <i>S</i> Typhi isolates were obtained, 30 (6%) of which had either decreased ciprofloxacin susceptibility, or ciprofloxacin resistance. From 11 295 blood cultures from STRATAA and TyVAC studies, 241 microbiologically confirmed cases of typhoid fever were identified, and 198 isolates from 195 participants sequenced (mean age 12·8 years [SD 10·2], 53% female, 47% male). Between Oct 1, 2016, and Aug 31, 2019, of 177 typhoid fever cases confirmed by whole-genome sequencing, four (2%) were caused by <i>S</i> Typhi with QRDR mutations, compared with six (33%) of 18 cases between Sept 1 and Oct 31, 2019. This increase was associated with a preceding spike in ciprofloxacin prescriptions. Every additional prescription of ciprofloxacin given to study participants in the preceding month was associated with a 4·2% increase (95% CI 1·8–7·0) in the relative risk of isolating <i>S</i> Typhi with a QRDR mutation (p=0·0008). Phylogenetic analysis showed that <i>S</i> Typhi isolates with QRDR mutations from September and October, 2019, belonged to two distinct subclades encoding two different QRDR mutations, and were closely related (4–10 single-nucleotide polymorphisms) to susceptible <i>S</i> Typhi endemic to Blantyre.</p>
<p><strong>Interpretation</strong> We postulate a causal relationship between increased ciprofloxacin prescriptions and an increase in fluoroquinolone non-susceptibility in <i>S</i> Typhi. Decreasing ciprofloxacin use by improving typhoid diagnostics, and reducing typhoid fever cases through the use of an efficacious vaccine, could help to limit the emergence of resistance.</p>
<p><strong>Funding</strong> Wellcome Trust, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and National Institute for Health and Care Research (UK).</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:8c06f4db-7fce-48ba-b189-58419156ae762024-04-19T13:27:27ZEvaluating the relationship between ciprofloxacin prescription and non-susceptibility in Salmonella Typhi in Blantyre, Malawi: an observational studyJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:8c06f4db-7fce-48ba-b189-58419156ae76EnglishSymplectic ElementsElsevier2024Ashton, PMChunga Chirambo, AMeiring, JEPatel, PDMbewe, MSilungwe, NChizani, KBanda, HHeyderman, RSDyson, ZAMacPherson, PHenrion, MYRSTRATAA Study GroupHolt, KEGordon, MAPollard, A<p><strong>Background</strong> Ciprofloxacin is the first-line drug for treating typhoid fever in many countries in Africa with a high disease burden, but the emergence of non-susceptibility poses a challenge to public health programmes. Through enhanced surveillance as part of vaccine evaluation, we investigated the occurrence and potential determinants of ciprofloxacin non-susceptibility in Blantyre, Malawi.</p> <p><strong>Methods</strong> We conducted systematic surveillance of typhoid fever cases and antibiotic prescription in two health centres in Blantyre, Malawi, between Oct 1, 2016, and Oct 31, 2019, as part of the STRATAA and TyVAC studies. In addition, blood cultures were taken from eligible patients presenting at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, as part of routine diagnosis. Inclusion criteria were measured or reported fever, or clinical suspicion of sepsis. Microbiologically, we identified <i>Salmonella enterica</i> serotype Typhi (<i>S</i> Typhi) isolates with a ciprofloxacin non-susceptible phenotype from blood cultures, and used whole-genome sequencing to identify drug-resistance mutations and phylogenetic relationships. We constructed generalised linear regression models to investigate associations between the number of ciprofloxacin prescriptions given per month to study participants and the proportion of S Typhi isolates with quinolone resistance-determining region (QRDR) mutations in the following month.</p> <p><strong>Findings</strong> From 46 989 blood cultures from Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, 502 <i>S</i> Typhi isolates were obtained, 30 (6%) of which had either decreased ciprofloxacin susceptibility, or ciprofloxacin resistance. From 11 295 blood cultures from STRATAA and TyVAC studies, 241 microbiologically confirmed cases of typhoid fever were identified, and 198 isolates from 195 participants sequenced (mean age 12·8 years [SD 10·2], 53% female, 47% male). Between Oct 1, 2016, and Aug 31, 2019, of 177 typhoid fever cases confirmed by whole-genome sequencing, four (2%) were caused by <i>S</i> Typhi with QRDR mutations, compared with six (33%) of 18 cases between Sept 1 and Oct 31, 2019. This increase was associated with a preceding spike in ciprofloxacin prescriptions. Every additional prescription of ciprofloxacin given to study participants in the preceding month was associated with a 4·2% increase (95% CI 1·8–7·0) in the relative risk of isolating <i>S</i> Typhi with a QRDR mutation (p=0·0008). Phylogenetic analysis showed that <i>S</i> Typhi isolates with QRDR mutations from September and October, 2019, belonged to two distinct subclades encoding two different QRDR mutations, and were closely related (4–10 single-nucleotide polymorphisms) to susceptible <i>S</i> Typhi endemic to Blantyre.</p> <p><strong>Interpretation</strong> We postulate a causal relationship between increased ciprofloxacin prescriptions and an increase in fluoroquinolone non-susceptibility in <i>S</i> Typhi. Decreasing ciprofloxacin use by improving typhoid diagnostics, and reducing typhoid fever cases through the use of an efficacious vaccine, could help to limit the emergence of resistance.</p> <p><strong>Funding</strong> Wellcome Trust, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and National Institute for Health and Care Research (UK).</p> |
| spellingShingle | Ashton, PM Chunga Chirambo, A Meiring, JE Patel, PD Mbewe, M Silungwe, N Chizani, K Banda, H Heyderman, RS Dyson, ZA MacPherson, P Henrion, MYR STRATAA Study Group Holt, KE Gordon, MA Evaluating the relationship between ciprofloxacin prescription and non-susceptibility in Salmonella Typhi in Blantyre, Malawi: an observational study |
| title | Evaluating the relationship between ciprofloxacin prescription and non-susceptibility in Salmonella Typhi in Blantyre, Malawi: an observational study |
| title_full | Evaluating the relationship between ciprofloxacin prescription and non-susceptibility in Salmonella Typhi in Blantyre, Malawi: an observational study |
| title_fullStr | Evaluating the relationship between ciprofloxacin prescription and non-susceptibility in Salmonella Typhi in Blantyre, Malawi: an observational study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Evaluating the relationship between ciprofloxacin prescription and non-susceptibility in Salmonella Typhi in Blantyre, Malawi: an observational study |
| title_short | Evaluating the relationship between ciprofloxacin prescription and non-susceptibility in Salmonella Typhi in Blantyre, Malawi: an observational study |
| title_sort | evaluating the relationship between ciprofloxacin prescription and non susceptibility in salmonella typhi in blantyre malawi an observational study |
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