IV vancomycin has been used as an alternative to parenteral penicillin G or ampicillin for prevention of perinatal group B streptococcal (GBS) disease† [off-label] in certain women with a high-risk penicillin allergy and whose GBS isolate is not susceptible to clindamycin....
There is a known association with endocarditis, but with intrinsic and acquired resistance to many common antibiotics such as Beta–lactams, including cephalosporins and penicillin, low concentrations of aminoglycosides, clindamycin, tetracycline, erythromycin, chloramphenicol, nitrofurantoin, and high ...
Based on the precautionary principle the European www.intechopen.com 326 Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria – A Continuous Challenge in the New Millennium Commission postponed the further use of four antimicrobial growth promoters with a supposed link (same antibiotic class) to antibiotics used in human ...
The other cephalosporins tested, with vancomycin, did not produce the same effect as cefoxitin (inhibition of vanC-containing isolates while allowing recovery of vanA and vanB isolates). While they were observed (for the most part) to inhibit the vanC isolates, they were also observed to inhib...
All isolates in our study were the same strains, which indicated horizontal transmission within the hospital. Horizontal transmission can be the cause of VISA emergence. As a newly built institution is not likely to have a reservoir for multidrug-resistant organisms, it is reasonable to assume ...