What can we learn from studies comparing linezolid with vancomycin in neutropenic patients when vancomycin dosages are not optimized?

Clin Infect Dis. 2006 Jun 15;42(12):1813-4; author reply 1814-5. doi: 10.1086/504431.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Comment
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Acetamides / therapeutic use*
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Fever
  • Humans
  • Linezolid
  • Neutropenia / drug therapy*
  • Oxazolidinones / therapeutic use*
  • Vancomycin / administration & dosage*
  • Vancomycin / blood
  • Vancomycin / therapeutic use*

Substances

  • Acetamides
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Oxazolidinones
  • Vancomycin
  • Linezolid