Microbiological and Clinical Characteristics of Severe Infections Caused by Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales

Severe infections caused by carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) represent a challenge for the clinicians, considering the high mortality rate of these infections. Data regarding the prevalence of CRE, clonal analysis, resistant genes (resistome) and virulence genes (virulome) molecular analyses, and clinical outcomes of infected patients are scarce. Thus, creating a network to Standardize and implement microbiological sourveillance could be crucial to answer this challenge. Our group consisting of the, UOC of Infectious Diseases and UOC of Microbiology (Prof Sanguinetti), the Microbiology Unit of the University of Catania (Prof. Stefania Stefani), the local Infectious Disease Unit (Dr Carmelo Iacobello) the Microbiology Unit of the "Magna Graecia'' University (Prof. Giovanni Matera) and the UOC of Infectious and Tropical Diseases UMG Catanzaro Prof Enrico Maria Trecarichi, has already started a project with promising ad interim results on this topic.

NCT Number	NCT07160569
Lead Sponsor	Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS
Conditions	Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae Infection
Enrollment	100 participants
Start Date	2025-09-01
Primary Completion	2026-07-01 (estimated)
Study Completion	2026-08-31 (estimated)
Updated on ClinicalTrials.gov	2025-09-08