Stenotrophomonas maltophilia colonization during allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is associated with impaired survival

  • Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) offers potential cure to acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients. However, infections with commensal bacteria are an important cause for non-relapse mortality (NRM). We have previously described the impact of multidrug-resistant organism (MDRO) colonization on the survival of allo-HSCT patients. In the aforementioned publication, according to consensus, we there did not consider the opportunistic gram-negative bacterium Stenotrophomonas maltophilia (S. maltophilia) to be an MDRO. Since rate of S. maltophilia colonization is increasing, and it is not known whether this poses a risk for allo-HSCT patients, we here analyzed here its effect on the previously described and now extended patient cohort. We report on 291 AML patients undergoing allo-HSCT. Twenty of 291 patients (6.9%) were colonized with S. maltophilia. Colonized patients did not differ from non-colonized patients with respect to their age, remission status before allo-HSCT, donor type and HSCT-comorbidity index. S. maltophilia colonized patients had a worse overall survival (OS) from 6 months up to 60 months (85% vs. 88.1% and 24.7% vs. 59.7%; p = 0.007) due to a higher NRM after allo-HSCT (6 months: 15% vs. 4.8% and 60 months: 40.1% vs. 16.2% p = 0.003). The main cause of mortality in colonized patients was infection (46.2% of all deaths) and in non-colonized patients relapse (58.8% of all deaths). 5/20 colonized patients developed an invasive infection with S. maltophilia. The worse OS after allo-HSCT due to higher infection related mortality might implicate the screening of allo-HSCT patients for S. maltophilia and a closer observation of colonized patients as outpatients.
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Author:Sebastian ScheichORCiD, Rosalie König, Anne Wilke, Sarah Lindner, Claudia ReinheimerGND, Thomas Alexander WichelhausORCiD, Michael HogardtORCiDGND, Volkhard A. J. KempfORCiDGND, Johanna KesselGND, Sarah WeberORCiD, Hans MartinORCiD, Gesine BugORCiDGND, Hubert ServeORCiDGND, Björn SteffenGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-468597
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0201169
ISSN:1932-6203
Pubmed Id:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30024969
Parent Title (English):PLoS one
Publisher:PLoS
Place of publication:Lawrence, Kan.
Contributor(s):Senthilnathan Palaniyandi
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of Completion:2018
Date of first Publication:2018/07/19
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2018/07/24
Tag:Acute myeloid leukemia; Bloodstream infections; Gram negative bacteria; Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; Intensive care units; Multivariate analysis; Neutropenia; Stenotrophomonas maltophilia
Volume:13
Issue:(7): e0201169
Page Number:14
First Page:1
Last Page:14
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Copyright: © 2018 Scheich et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
HeBIS-PPN:435671332
Institutes:Medizin / Medizin
Dewey Decimal Classification:6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Open-Access-Publikationsfonds:Medizin
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0