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Rational vancomycin use recommendations.

C M Hitt·B Cooper·H M Crowe
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The increasing occurrence of VRE will dramatically affect the management of infections in hospitalized patients, as well as increase morbidity and mortality. Vancomycin is the therapy of choice for certain gram-positive infections in patients with significant allergic histories to beta-lactam antibiotics and for infections with gram-positive microorganisms that are resistant to beta-lactam antibiotics. Conservative use of vancomycin in the future may help to avoid the further development of resistant organisms.

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C M Hitt, B Cooper, H M Crowe. 1995. Rational vancomycin use recommendations.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7895478/

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