Absence of Correlation Between Vancomycin Consumption and Minimum Inhibitory Concentration of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Isolates

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2017 Jun;38(6):751-753. doi: 10.1017/ice.2017.39. Epub 2017 Mar 16.

Authors

Cezar Vinícius Würdig Riche¹, Renato Cassol Ferreira da Silva², Jorge Alberto Santiago Ferreira², Cícero Armídio Gomes Dias¹, Diego Rodrigues Falci³

Affiliations

¹ 1Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre,Porto Alegre,RS,Brazil.
² 3Hospital Nossa Senhora da Conceição,Porto Alegre,RS,Brazil.
³ 4Hospital das Clínicas de Porto Alegre,Porto Alegre,RS,Brazil.

PMID: 28300013
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2017.39

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacology
Antimicrobial Stewardship*
Humans
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus / drug effects*
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus / genetics
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus / isolation & purification*
Microbial Sensitivity Tests
Staphylococcal Infections / epidemiology*
Vancomycin / pharmacology*

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Vancomycin