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Vancomycin exposure in patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections: how much is enough?
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 1 Sept 2014
Lodise Thomas P, Drusano George L, Zasowski Evan, Dihmess Amanda, Lazariu Victoria, Cosler Leon, McNutt Louise-Anne
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BACKGROUND: Contemporary vancomycin dosing schemes are designed to achieve an area under the curve (AUC) to minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) ratio of ≥400. However, scant clinical data exist to support this target and available data relied on pharmacokinetic formulas based on daily vancomycin dose and estimated renal function (demographic pharmacokinetic model) to estimate AUCs. METHODS: A cohort study of...
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