Persistent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteremia due to a linezolid "tolerant" strain

Heart and Lung: Journal of Acute and Critical Care

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 398-400

  Cunha, Burke A ^a   Mikail, Nardeen ^a   Eisenstein, Lawrence ^a  

^a WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAPTOMYCIN; HEPARIN; LINEZOLID; MOXIFLOXACIN; WARFARIN;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DETERIORATION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG EDEMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STROKE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ACETAMIDES; AGED; BACTEREMIA; DAPTOMYCIN; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OXAZOLIDINONES; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 51349126803     PISSN: 01479563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2007.12.001     Document Type: Article

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