Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia after thoracic surgery: successful treatment with linezolid after failed vancomycin therapy.
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Abstract
We describe 3 patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, hospital-acquired pneumonia who demonstrated a microbiological and clinical failure with vancomycin despite adequate trough levels. All 3 patients were cured with linezolid.
Medical subject headings
- Acetamides
- Anti-Infective Agents
- Methicillin Resistance
- Oxazolidinones
- Pneumonia, Staphylococcal
- Staphylococcus aureus