Clinical experience with daptomycin: bacteraemia and endocarditis

Serious infections due to Staphylococcus aureus, especially those due to methicillin-resistant S. aureus, have become a major challenge. Vancomycin has long been the drug of choice for treatment of such infections, but failures due to its slow bactericidal activity coupled with increasing MICs have...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy 2008-11, Vol.62 (suppl-3), p.iii35-iii39
1. Verfasser:	Levine, Donald P
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Anti-Bacterial Agents - therapeutic use Bacteremia - drug therapy Bacteremia - microbiology Daptomycin - therapeutic use Endocarditis, Bacterial - drug therapy Endocarditis, Bacterial - microbiology Enterococcus - drug effects Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections - drug therapy Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections - microbiology Humans MRSA S. aureus Staphylococcus aureus Staphylococcus aureus - drug effects Treatment Outcome
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