Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus meningitis: has the time come for an alternative to vancomycin?

Infection. 2002 Jun;30(3):181-2; author reply 183. doi: 10.1007/s15010-002-3013-1.
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Publication types

  • Comment
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • Female
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Meningitis, Bacterial / drug therapy*
  • Meningitis, Bacterial / microbiology
  • Meningitis, Bacterial / mortality
  • Methicillin Resistance*
  • Microbial Sensitivity Tests
  • Staphylococcal Infections / diagnosis
  • Staphylococcal Infections / drug therapy*
  • Staphylococcal Infections / mortality
  • Staphylococcus aureus / drug effects*
  • Staphylococcus aureus / isolation & purification
  • Survival Rate
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Vancomycin / administration & dosage*
  • Vancomycin / economics

Substances

  • Vancomycin