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. 2011 Jun;17(6):1099-102.
doi: 10.3201/eid/1706.101037.

High vancomycin MIC and complicated methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia

Jose Maria Aguado  1 , Rafael San-Juan, Antonio Lalueza, Francisca Sanz, Joaquin Rodríguez-Otero, Carmen Gómez-Gonzalez, Fernando Chaves
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High vancomycin MIC and complicated methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia

Jose Maria Aguado et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2011 Jun.

Abstract

We conducted a retrospective study of 99 patients with methicillin-suseptible Staphylococcus aureus catheter-related bacteremia in which vancomycin MIC was determined by Etest. High vancomycin MIC (>1.5 ug/mL) was the only independent risk factor for development of complicated bacteremia caused by methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (odds ratio 22.9, 95% confidence interval 6.7-78.1).

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