Infectious Diseases in Critical Care Medicine

automatically except in the presence of IE, infection of vascular tunnel, suppurative thrombophlebitis or infection by certain p ...

organism, the immune status of the host and age. The four-year mortality rate of individuals successfully treated for non-IVDA I ...

to establish synergy. Synergy does not exist if the enterococcus is resistant to the cell wall active antibiotic (226). Currentl ...

penicillin allergies. There have been failures of cefazolin in treatment of IE. These are ascribed to the production of type Ab- ...

does significantly increase the rate of renal failure (222). Tables 18 and 19 summarize the antibiotic treatment approaches toS. ...

increasing prevalence of isolates ofS. aureusfor whom the MIC of vancomycin is greater than 4 mg/mL (242). In addition, it appea ...

The newer antifungal agents, capsofungin, and voriconazole are less toxic and appear to be effective alternatives to amphoterici ...

Table 22 Therapy of Various Types of Infective Endocarditisa Organism Antibiotic regimen Alternative regimen Culture-negative Am ...

Table 24 Resistance Patterns ofCandidaspp. Candidaspp. Sensitivity to antifungalsa C. albicans Sensitive to all classes of antif ...

has been thoroughly reviewed in other sources (262). Many innovative approaches to prevention have been developed including hepa ...

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