Vancomycin

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They put me on Vancomycin, which is referred to as the last resort antibiotic.

CNN Transcript Oct 29, 2007 2007
Vancomycin is the only remaining antibiotic that can touch the antibiotic resistant germ, but new strains of MRSA are showing resistance even to vancomycin.

Dr. Douglas Fields: Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria From the Fukushima Nuclear Accident? Dr. Douglas Fields 2012
Vancomycin became a drug of last resort, doled out with extreme care for fear that widespread use would encourage resistance to develop.20

SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
Vancomycin treatment in the two patients failed until they were both given unusually large doses.

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Vancomycin therapy in severe staphylococcal infections.

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Moellering RC, Jr. Vancomycin: a 50-year reassessment.

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Vancomycin is an old drug, on the market for more than fifty years, and problematic in many ways.

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Vancomycin had achieved its status as the go-to drug for MRSA not because it was the best, but because it was the sole anti-staphylococcal antibiotic to which multidrug-resistant hospital strains were still vulnerable.

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Counterpoint: Vancomycin and Staphylococcus aureus—an antibiotic enters obsolescence.

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Vancomycin is still effective against MRSA, despite decades of use.

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