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Researchers at New Hanover Regional Medical Center release new data on anti-infectives

Published in Anti-Infectives Week, December 3rd, 2007

Fresh data on anti-infectives are presented in the report 'Vancomycin MIC creep in non-vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (VISA), vancomycin-susceptible clinical methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) blood isolates from 2001-05.' In this recently published study, investigators in the United States conducted a study "To assess whether methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) vancomycin MIC shifts (MIC creep) at a tertiary care institution occurred that may have gone undetected using traditional susceptibility markers (percentage susceptible, MIC(50), MIC(90)) over a 5 year period. Additionally, MIC trends were evaluated for oxacillin, linezolid and daptomycin...

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