How long should a patient receive intermittent intravenous vancomycin therapy? I have a patient who has been receiving 1 g of vancomycin every 60 hours for 3.5 months. His peak and trough are within ...

Patients admitted to the hospital for the common bacterial skin infection cellulitis should be treated as a first line of defense with the potent antibiotic drug vancomycin rather than other ...

Dear Dr. Donohue: My wife is being treated for an infection of the aortic heart valve. They are injecting her with the antibiotic vancomycin. I understand that vancomycin is not the safest drug in the ...

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2013. Antibiotic resistance threats in the United States, 2013. Atlanta, GA: CDC http://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/pdf/ar ...

The epidemiology, clinical severity, and case-fatality ratio of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) changed dramatically with the emergence of a toxin hyperproducing strain (BI/NAP1/027) in North ...