The Role of Vancomycin in the Treatment Paradigm
Vancomycin was introduced in the United States in 1956 as a possible treatment for infections due to penicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, but it was not used widely because of toxicity and the nearly simultaneous development of semisynthetic antibiotics and cephalosporins. Thus, its main indi...
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Published in | Clinical infectious diseases Vol. 42; no. Supplement-1; pp. S51 - S57 |
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Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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United States
The University of Chicago Press
01.01.2006
University of Chicago Press Oxford University Press |
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