Efficacy and safety of tigecycline compared with vancomycin or linezolid for treatment of serious infections with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or vancomycin-resistant enterococci: a Phase 3, multicentre, double-blind, randomized study
Author(s) -
I Florescu,
Mircea Beuran,
R Dimov,
Artūras Razbadauskas,
Markian R. Bochan,
G Fichev,
Gary Dukart,
Timothy Babinchak,
C. Angel Cooper,
Evelyn J. EllisGrosse,
Nathalie Dartois,
Hassan Gandjini
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124
H-Index - 194
eISSN - 1460-2091
pISSN - 0305-7453
DOI - 10.1093/jac/dkn250
Subject(s) - tigecycline , medicine , linezolid , vancomycin , methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus , population , surgery , enterococcus faecium , vancomycin resistant enterococcus , staphylococcus aureus , antibiotics , microbiology and biotechnology , genetics , bacteria , biology , environmental health
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) are causing serious nosocomial infections. Tigecycline was evaluated in hospitalized patients with MRSA or VRE infection.
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