Successful treatment of vertebral osteomyelitis with linezolid in a patient receiving hemodialysis and with persistent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus bacteremias [4]

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 208-209

  Melzer, M ^a   Goldsmith, D ^a   Gransden, W ^a  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; LINEZOLID; METICILLIN; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LETTER; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NEUTROPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONDYLITIS;

ACETAMIDES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; ENTEROCOCCUS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; OSTEOMYELITIS; OXAZOLIDINONES; RENAL DIALYSIS; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 0034456945     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/313897     Document Type: Letter

References (3)

1. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in a renal allograft recipient treated successfully with a novel new antimicrobial agent: New treatment options for infections due to resistant organisms
2. Successful treatment of persistent vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium bacteremia with linezolid and gentamicin
3. Use of linezolid, an oxazolidinone, in the treatment of multidrug-resistant gram-positive bacterial infections