Tigecycline in the management of post-neurosurgical spondylodiscitis: a review of eight cases
Author(s) -
Oğuz Reşat Sıpahı,
Hasip Kahraman,
Sinan Mermer,
Hüsnü Pullukçu,
Meltem Taşbakan,
Bilgin Arda,
Tansu Yamazhan,
Taşkın Yurtseven,
Şöhret Aydemir,
Sercan Ulusoy
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
international journal of infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.278
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1878-3511
pISSN - 1201-9712
DOI - 10.1016/j.ijid.2014.01.027
Subject(s) - spondylodiscitis , tigecycline , medicine , surgery , general surgery , antibiotics , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
Tigecycline is a relatively new glycylcycline antimicrobial, active in vitro against a variety of Gram-positive and Gram-negative organisms. In this study we evaluated the outcomes of spondylodiscitis cases treated with tigecycline-including therapies retrospectively.
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