Adjunctive rifampicin to reduce early mortality from Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia: the ARREST RCT

Background: Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia is a common and frequently fatal infection. Adjunctive rifampicin may enhance early S. aureus killing, sterilise infected foci and blood faster, and thereby reduce the risk of dissemination, metastatic infection and death. Objectives: To determine whethe...

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Main Authors: Guy E Thwaites, Matthew Scarborough, Alexander Szubert, Pedro Saramago Goncalves, Marta Soares, Jennifer Bostock, Emmanuel Nsutebu, Robert Tilley, Richard Cunningham, Julia Greig, Sarah A Wyllie, Peter Wilson, Cressida Auckland, Janet Cairns, Denise Ward, Pankaj Lal, Achyut Guleri, Neil Jenkins, Julian Sutton, Martin Wiselka, Gonzalez-Ruiz Armando, Clive Graham, Paul R Chadwick, Gavin Barlow, N Claire Gordon, Bernadette Young, Sarah Meisner, Paul McWhinney, David A Price, David Harvey, Deepa Nayar, Dakshika Jeyaratnam, Timothy Planche, Jane Minton, Fleur Hudson, Susan Hopkins, John Williams, M Estee Török, Martin J Llewelyn, Jonathan D Edgeworth, A Sarah Walker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: NIHR Journals Library 2018-10-01
Series:Health Technology Assessment
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3310/hta22590