“…We thought that the chosen high breakpoints for target attainment were necessary due to the high number of immunocompromised patients who underwent lung or liver transplantation and had special pathogens with higher MICs than other patients [31,32]. The number of subtherapeutic levels was comparable to those reported in the literature for meropenem [17,33,34], piperacillin [7,35,36], and other beta-lactam antibiotics like cefepime [37] or ceftriaxone [38]. Furthermore, the existing correlation between renal function and beta-lactam blood concentration has also been described in different studies [21,22].…”