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New MRSA Treatment Guidelines May Encourage Nephrotoxic Vancomycin Doses
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Title New MRSA Treatment Guidelines May Encourage Nephrotoxic Vancomycin Doses
Url http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/575036?src=rss
Description Recent guidelines recommending vancomycin trough concentrations of 15-20 mg/L for patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections may prompt the use of vancomycin doses of 4 mg a day or greater -- doses that are associated with nephrotoxicity, investigators warn in the April issue of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. Reuters Health Information
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Date May 29, 2008
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