Early experience with high-dosage daptomycin for prosthetic infections

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1772-1773

  De Rosa, Francesco G ^a   Mollaretti, Oscar ^a   Cometto, Cristina ^a   Pagani, Nicole ^a   Montrucchio, Chiara ^a   Di Perri, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CREATINE KINASE; DAPTOMYCIN; TEICOPLANIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CASE REPORT; DEVICE REMOVAL; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; HUMAN; KNEE ARTHRITIS; KNEE PROSTHESIS; LETTER; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OSTEOMYELITIS; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; TIBIA; TIBIA FRACTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DAPTOMYCIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 72849139080     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/648115     Document Type: Letter

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