Should the Currently Recommended Twice-Daily Dosing Still be Considered the Most Appropriate Regimen for Treating MRSA Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia with Vancomycin?
- 1 January 2008
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Springer Nature in Clinical Pharmacokinetics
- Vol. 47 (3), 147-152
- https://doi.org/10.2165/00003088-200847030-00001
Abstract
Meticillin-resistant (methicillin-resistant) Staphylococcus aureuscauses unacceptably high mortality from ventilator-associated pneumonia, even when appropriate early therapy with vancomycin is...Keywords
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