Clinical failure of vancomycin treatment of Staphylococcus aureus infection in a tertiary care hospital in southern Brazil

Clinical failure of vancomycin treatment of Staphylococcus aureus infection in a tertiary care hospital in southern Brazil

We describe a case of clinical failure of vancomycin treatment of Staphylococcus aureus infection and the laboratory characteristics of the organism in a tertiary referral university hospital in southern Brazil. An 11-month-old male patient presented with pneumonia and S. aureus was isolated from hi...

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Main Authors: Larissa Lutz, Adão Machado, Nadia Kuplich, Afonso Luís Barth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier
Series:Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
S. aureus
resistance
vancomycin
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702003000300008&lng=en&tlng=en

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