Is reduced vancomycin susceptibility a factor associated with poor prognosis in MSSA bacteraemia?

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The known data about the influence of vancomycin MIC on Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia are contradictory. Our objective was to study the possible impact of vancomycin MIC ≥1.5 mg/L on short- and medium-term mortality.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): J. Antimicrob. Chemother.

Title: The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy

ISSN (Electronic): 1460-2091

ISSN (Print): 0305-7453

Publication date (Electronic): Sep 2015

Volume: 70

Issue: 9

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[1 ] Unidad Clínica de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Microbiología y Medicina Preventiva, Hospitales Universitarios Virgen Macarena y Virgen del Rocío, Sevilla, Spain Spanish Network for Research in Infectious Diseases, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain luiselopezcortes@gmail.com.

[2 ] Departamento de Microbiología, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain.

[3 ] Unidad Clínica de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Microbiología y Medicina Preventiva, Hospitales Universitarios Virgen Macarena y Virgen del Rocío, Sevilla, Spain Spanish Network for Research in Infectious Diseases, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.

[4 ] Unidad Clínica de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Microbiología y Medicina Preventiva, Hospitales Universitarios Virgen Macarena y Virgen del Rocío, Sevilla, Spain Spanish Network for Research in Infectious Diseases, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain Departamento de Microbiología, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain.

[5 ] Unidad Clínica de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Microbiología y Medicina Preventiva, Hospitales Universitarios Virgen Macarena y Virgen del Rocío, Sevilla, Spain Spanish Network for Research in Infectious Diseases, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain Departamento de Medicina, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain.

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Publisher Item ID: dkv133

DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkv133

PubMed ID: 26023210

SO-VID: bdd1a18f-5c98-42f3-9a69-82d0b43d5b0c

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Keywords: MICs,S. aureus,virulence factors

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Keywords: MICs, S. aureus, virulence factors

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