Adjuvant Clopidogrel in Staphylococcus Aureus Bacteremia

The CLOPI-SNAP study evaluates whether the administration of clopidogrel as adjunctive therapy improves clinical outcomes while maintaining an acceptable safety profile in hospitalized patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB). To be eligible for the SNAP platform (NCT 05137119), patients must meet at least two criteria: isolation of the Staphylococcus aureus complex from ≥1 blood culture and admission to a participating hospital at the time of eligibility assessment. SNAP is designed to concurrently evaluate multiple therapeutic strategies. Patients are randomly assigned to different concurrent treatment options that are currently considered acceptable in routine clinical practice; thus, standard-of-care therapy consists of approved antibiotics for the treatment of Staphylococcus aureus infection. Specifically, patients participating in CLOPI-SNAP-adult patients with SAB enrolled in the SNAP platform-are randomized in a 1:1 ratio to receive either oral clopidogrel for 5 days, administered as a 300-mg loading dose on Day 1 followed by 75 mg once daily on subsequent days, or no antiplatelet therapy. The primary endpoint is the Desirability of Outcome Ranking (DOOR) assessed at Day 90, a hierarchical composite outcome integrating survival, clinical failure, infectious complications, and the occurrence of serious adverse events. The limited 5-day duration of clopidogrel administration is intended to focus its potential therapeutic benefit on the early phase of infection, characterized by high bacterial burden and systemic inflammation, while minimizing the risk of bleeding associated with prolonged antiplatelet exposure.