Resistance to teicoplanin developing during treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection [1]

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 423-424

  Elsaghier, Ashraf A F ^a   Aucken, Hazel M ^b   Hamilton Miller, Jeremy M ^a   Shaw, Stephen ^a   Kibbler, Christopher C ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRAL PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; METICILLIN; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG POTENTIATION; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LETTER; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; SPLEEN ABSCESS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TEICOPLANIN;

EID: 0036181650     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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4. Combinations of vancomycin and β-lactams are synergistic against staphylococci with reduced susceptibilities to vancomycin