Cloxacillin versus vancomycin for presumed late-onset sepsis in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and the impact upon outcome of coagulase negative staphylococcal bacteremia: a retrospective cohort study

BACKGROUND: Coagulase negative staphylococcus (CONS) is the main cause of late-onset sepsis in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU). Although CONS rarely causes fulminant sepsis, vancomycin is frequently used as empiric therapy. Indiscriminate use of vancomycin has been linked to the emergence of va...

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Autores principales: Lawrence, Sarah L, Roth, Virginia, Slinger, Robert, Toye, Baldwin, Gaboury, Isabelle, Lemyre, Brigitte
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1343548/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16375769
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-5-49

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