Update on the safety of linezolid

Expert Opinion on Drug Safety

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 485-491

  Metaxas, Eugenios I ^a   Falagas, Matthew E ^a,b  

^a ALFA INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AIBS   (Greece)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse events; Gram positive infections; Lactic acidosis; Linezolid; Neuropathy; Oxazolidinones; Pneumonia; Safety

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM; BUSPIRONE; CEFPODOXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; DICLOXACILLIN; GLYCOPEPTIDE; LINEZOLID; MONOAMINE; MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITOR; OXACILLIN; PETHIDINE; PHENYLPROPANOLAMINE; PSEUDOEPHEDRINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; TYRAMINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANEMIA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTEREMIA; BELL PALSY; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CANDIDIASIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONSTIPATION; CONVULSION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DIZZINESS; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG FEVER; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LOOSE FECES; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MYCOSIS; NAUSEA; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUTROPENIA; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PANCREATITIS; PANCYTOPENIA; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PNEUMONIA; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; SEROTONIN SYNDROME; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; TASTE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TONGUE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; VOMITING;

ACETAMIDES; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BELL PALSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE III AS TOPIC; DRUG INTERACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFECTION; KIDNEY DISEASES; OXAZOLIDINONES; PREGNANCY;

EID: 67650555777     PISSN: 14740338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/14740330903049706     Document Type: Review

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