Vancomycin has only rarely been implicated as a cause of thrombocytopenia, and there is only limited evidence that this complication is caused by immune mechanisms. We conducted a study to determine ...

Purpose. The feasibility of using a limitedsampling algorithm for administration of vancomycin for treatment of vascular-access-related bacteremia in outpatient high flux hemodialysis was investigated ...

Vancomycin is an effective glycopeptide antibiotic for gram-positive infections and is widely used to treat patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Staphylococcus epidermidis ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . However, this finding did not reach statistical significance, the researchers noted. “This is the first ...

Guidelines recommend against use of midline catheters for vancomycin-based outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT), but evidence supporting the guidance is limited. This retrospective study ...

Vancomycin is a common antibiotic used to treat gram-positive bacterial infections. It targets a key building block of the bacterial cell wall called Lipid II, but it can’t reach this lipid in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Daptomycin costs more to acquire, but the overall treatment cost is less than with vancomycin. Daptomycin ...