The effect of diabetes mellitus on outcomes of patients with nosocomial pneumonia caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: data from a prospective double-blind clinical trial comparing treatment with linezolid versus vancomycin

BACKGROUND: The presence of diabetes mellitus increases the risk of several severe infections, but data on its effect on treatment outcomes in patients with nosocomial pneumonia (NP) caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are limited. METHODS: We retrospectively analyzed data f...

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Autores principales: Equils, Ozlem, da Costa, Christopher, Wible, Michele, Lipsky, Benjamin A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5011934/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27600290
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-016-1779-5

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