Minocycline is a reliable and effective oral option to treat meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus skin and soft-tissue infections, including doxycycline treatment failures

International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 386-387

  Cunha, Burke A ^a,b  

^a WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTAROLINE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; LINEZOLID; MINOCYCLINE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; DIZZINESS; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; LETTER; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; SKIN ABSCESS; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DRUG EFFECTS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINOCYCLINE; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS;

EID: 84898008085     PISSN: 09248579     EISSN: 18727913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2014.01.003     Document Type: Letter

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