TY - JOUR
T1 - Designing a pathogen-focused study to address the high unmet medical need represented by carbapenem-resistant gram-negative pathogens – the international, multicenter, randomized, open-label, phase 3 credible-cr study
AU - Bassetti, Matteo
AU - Ariyasu, Mari
AU - Binkowitz, Bruce
AU - Nagata, Tsutae Den
AU - Echols, Roger M.
AU - Matsunaga, Yuko
AU - Toyoizumi, Kiichiro
AU - Doi, Yohei
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank Ann Howell, Basil Houdali, and Marueen Silverman for their valuable review and critique of the manuscript. Editorial support was provided by Highfield, Oxford, United Kingdom, sponsored by Shionogi Inc., Florham Park,
Funding Information:
NJ, USA. The study was funded by Shionogi Inc., Florham Park, NJ, USA.
Funding Information:
Outside the submitted work, MB has participated in advisory boards and/or received speaker honoraria from Achaogen, Angelini, Astellas, Bayer, Basilea, Biomerieux, Cidara, Gilead, Menarini, MSD, Nabriva, Paratek, Pfizer, Roche, Melinta, Shionogi, Tetraphase, VenatoRx and Vifor, and has received study grants from Angelini, Basilea, Astellas, Shionogi, Cidara, Melinta, Gilead, Pfizer and MSD. YD has received grant support from The Medicines Company, Accelerate Diagnostics, Pfizer, MSD, Shionogi, Astellas, Kanto Chemical, the National Institutes of Health, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and AMED, has served on advisory boards for Allergan, The Medicines Company, Meiji, Roche, Pfizer, Tetraphase, Recida, Fedora, VenatoRx, and has received speaking honorarium from Pfizer, MSD, and Shionogi. BB, YM, KT are employees of Shionogi Inc., Florham Park, NJ, USA. TDN, MA are employees of Shionogi & Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan. RME is a consultant for Shionogi Inc., Florham Park, NJ, USA. The authors report no other conflicts of interest in this work.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Carbapenem-resistant (CR) Gram-negative infections, including those caused by Enterobacteriaceae and the non-fermenters, represent the greatest unmet need for new effective treatments. The clinical development of new antibiotics for the treatment of CR infections is challenging and should focus on the individual pathogens irrespective of the infection site. However, the drug approval pathway is generally infection-site specific and rarely includes such drug-resistant pathogens. To overcome this limitation, a streamlined clinical development program may include a pathogen-focused clinical study, such as the CREDIBLE-CR study, to meet the expectations of some health authorities (ie, the European Medicines Agency [EMA]) and the medical community. Cefiderocol is a novel siderophore cephalosporin designed to target CR pathogens, including CR strains of Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter baumannii, and also Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, which is intrinsically CR. The CREDIBLE-CR study was planned to evaluate cefiderocol in patients with CR Gram-negative infections regardless of species or infection-site source. Rapid diagnostic testing and/or selective media were provided to facilitate detection of CR pathogens to rapidly enroll patients with nosocomial pneumonia, bloodstream infection/sepsis, or complicated urinary tract infection. Patients were randomized 2:1 to receive cefiderocol or best available therapy. There were no pre-specified statistical hypotheses for this study, as the sample size was driven by enrollment feasibility and not based on statistical power calculations. The objective of the CREDIBLE-CR study was to provide descriptive evidence of the efficacy and safety of cefiderocol for the target population of patients with CR infections, including the non-fermenters. The CREDIBLE-CR study is currently the largest pathogen-focused, randomized, open-label, prospective, Phase 3 clinical study to investigate a new antibiotic in patients with CR Gram-negative infections. Here we describe the design of this pathogen-focused study and steps taken to aid patient enrollment into the study within an evolving regulatory environment.
AB - Carbapenem-resistant (CR) Gram-negative infections, including those caused by Enterobacteriaceae and the non-fermenters, represent the greatest unmet need for new effective treatments. The clinical development of new antibiotics for the treatment of CR infections is challenging and should focus on the individual pathogens irrespective of the infection site. However, the drug approval pathway is generally infection-site specific and rarely includes such drug-resistant pathogens. To overcome this limitation, a streamlined clinical development program may include a pathogen-focused clinical study, such as the CREDIBLE-CR study, to meet the expectations of some health authorities (ie, the European Medicines Agency [EMA]) and the medical community. Cefiderocol is a novel siderophore cephalosporin designed to target CR pathogens, including CR strains of Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter baumannii, and also Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, which is intrinsically CR. The CREDIBLE-CR study was planned to evaluate cefiderocol in patients with CR Gram-negative infections regardless of species or infection-site source. Rapid diagnostic testing and/or selective media were provided to facilitate detection of CR pathogens to rapidly enroll patients with nosocomial pneumonia, bloodstream infection/sepsis, or complicated urinary tract infection. Patients were randomized 2:1 to receive cefiderocol or best available therapy. There were no pre-specified statistical hypotheses for this study, as the sample size was driven by enrollment feasibility and not based on statistical power calculations. The objective of the CREDIBLE-CR study was to provide descriptive evidence of the efficacy and safety of cefiderocol for the target population of patients with CR infections, including the non-fermenters. The CREDIBLE-CR study is currently the largest pathogen-focused, randomized, open-label, prospective, Phase 3 clinical study to investigate a new antibiotic in patients with CR Gram-negative infections. Here we describe the design of this pathogen-focused study and steps taken to aid patient enrollment into the study within an evolving regulatory environment.
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U2 - 10.2147/IDR.S225553
DO - 10.2147/IDR.S225553
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85075417194
VL - 12
SP - 3607
EP - 3623
JO - Infection and Drug Resistance
JF - Infection and Drug Resistance
SN - 1178-6973
ER -