Friday, November 24, 2006

New antibiotics for gram positive infections

This CCJM review provides useful perspectives on the use of vancomycin and the newer antibiotics linezolid, quinupristin-dalfopristin, daptomycin and tygecycline. Note: since this paper’s publication daptomycin has been approved for S. aureus bacteremia including MRSA. Related post here.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

what about smz/tmp if c/s shows acceptable? it's super cheap and our state infx control has been pushing it