| Literature DB >> 23730321 |
Ryan Yu1, Suzanne E Dale, Deborah Yamamura, Vida Stankus, Christine Lee.
Abstract
Due to the emergence of Staphylococcus aureus with reduced vancomycin susceptibility, newer antibiotics, including daptomycin, have been used to treat methicillin-resistant S aureus infections. Daptomycin is a cyclic lipopeptide that is approved to treat S aureus bacteremia and right-sided endocarditis, and reports of S aureus with reduced susceptibility to daptomycin are infrequent. To our knowledge, the present report describes the first Canadian case of daptomycin-nonsusceptible, vancomycin-intermediate S aureus infection.Entities:
Keywords: Daptomycin nonsusceptible; Endocarditis; Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Vancomycin intermediate resistance
Year: 2012 PMID: 23730321 PMCID: PMC3403664 DOI: 10.1155/2012/138470
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Can J Infect Dis Med Microbiol ISSN: 1712-9532 Impact factor: 2.471