Daptomycin versus vancomycin plus gentamicin for treatment of bacteraemia and endocarditis due to Staphylococcus aureus: subset analysis of patients infected with methicillin-resistant isolates

OBJECTIVES: In a prospective, randomized trial, daptomycin was non-inferior to standard therapy for Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia and right-sided endocarditis. Since rates of infection due to methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) infection are increasing and treatment outcomes for bacteraemia c...

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Autores principales: Rehm, Susan J., Boucher, Helen, Levine, Donald, Campion, Marilyn, Eisenstein, Barry I., Vigliani, Gloria A., Corey, G.Ralph, Abrutyn, Elias
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2583068/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18782781
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkn372

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