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Management Practices for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia by Adult Infectious Diseases Physicians
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Management Practices for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia by Adult Infectious Diseases Physicians

Natalie Banniettis, Susan E Beekmann, Philip M Polgreen, Shubhi Kaushik, Stephan Kohlhoff, David Gilbert, John E Bennett and Margaret R Hammerschlag
Open forum infectious diseases, Vol.5(5), pp.ofy093-ofy093
05/19/2018
DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofy093
PMCID: PMC5961149
PMID: 29876367
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https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy093View
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Abstract

To assess current use of vancomycin for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia, we surveyed adult infectious disease physicians. Most respondents reported personal experience with infections failing to respond to vancomycin despite minimum inhibitory concentration data indicating susceptibility. In a hypothetical case of such an infection, most would change to daptomycin with or without other agents.
bacteremia Brief Report GSSA MRSA treatment failure vancomycin

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