Results from a multi-center study of hospitalized adults with MRSA bloodstream infections suggest that vancomycin dosing should be guided by the area under the curve, or AUC, not the AUC/MIC ratio, ...

Vancomycin, an antibiotic medication used to treat serious bacterial infections, can lead to increased nephrotoxicity without improved efficacy if administered in an excessive dosage, or can fail to ...

Background. This study analyzed the relationship between vancomycin area under the concentration-time curve (AUC) and acute kidney injury (AKI) reported across recent studies. Methods. A systematic ...

Researchers have developed a population-based pharmacokinetic model to identify target levels for vancomycin treatment so that infants infected with Staphylococcus aureus receive effective therapy.

JUPITER, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DoseMe, a leading provider of precision dosing software for therapeutic drug monitoring and creators of DoseMeRx and DoseMe Analytics, today announced New England Life ...

JUPITER, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DoseMe, a leading provider of model-informed precision dosing (MIPD), today announced Dr. Marc Scheetz, will present, Big data Bayesian truths: no vancomycin trough ...

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Vancomycin is an effective glycopeptide antibiotic for gram-positive infections and is widely used to treat patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Staphylococcus epidermidis ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Vancomycin efficacy and its clinical outcomes in hemodialysis (HD) patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteremia may not be solely based on dose, treatment ...

The patient was a 35-year-old man from São Paulo with mycosis fungoides, cocaine addiction, and diabetes mellitus. He was initially admitted to a psychiatric hospital in November 2011 for depression ...

The Annals of Pharmacotherapy. 2007;41(2):235-244. Two prospective studies and 2 post hoc analyses have evaluated linezolid for treatment of nosocomial pneumonia. A multinational trial compared ...