7thSpace Interactive (press release) In accordance with the prevailing infection control guidelines, the hospital has screened patients who had contact with the index patient. One more 91-year-old male patient was confirmed to be VRE carrier today, but without clinical symptoms. The ...
MedPage Today As well, the investigators reported in Science Translational Medicine, adding silver to the Gram-positive-specific antibiotic vancomycin allowed the drug to penetrate and kill Gram-negative bacteria. "Silver could be incredibly valuable as an adjunct ...
Scientific American That disruption to the cell membrane also increased the effectiveness of vancomycin , a large-molecule antibiotic, on Gram-negative bacteria — which have a protective outer coating. Gram-negative bacterial cells can often be impenetrable to antibiotics ...
The Economist (blog) The researchers suspect that, at least in the case of vancomycin , silver works its magic by allowing the antibiotic to sneak into bacterial cells through the holes silver ions poke in the cell membranes. Drug-resistant superbugs are a growing worry ...
MarketWatch Patients with HABP suspected or proven to be caused by Gram-positive bacteria were randomized (1:1) to receive either telavancin 10 mg/kg IV once daily or vancomycin 1 gram IV every 12 hours. The objective of each study was non-inferiority of VIBATIV(R ...
Los Angeles Times Also, study authors said they were surprised and excited to find that the silver-antibiotic combo was able to "re-sensitize" bacteria that had develope...
Medscape Among patients presumed to test positive for S. aureus taken at baseline, mortality rates were comparable between the telavancin and vancomycin treatment arms...
Monthly Prescribing Reference (HealthDay News) – For patients with cancer with Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD), fidaxomicin treatment is associated with improved outcomes compared with vancomycin treatment, according to research published online May 28 in the ... and more »
Newswise (press release) Meridian Research Day 2013 Award Winners. Original Research Oral Presentations. 1st Place: The Impact of Rapid Diagnostic Tests on Vancomycin Exposure in Patients with BloodCultures Positive for Gram-Positive Cocci in Clusters. Dipal Soni, PharmD [1] ... and more »
Healio COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Pressurizing and hydrating the eye with vancomycin and balanced salt solution in association with ofloxacin pledgets was effective in reducing post-cataract endophthalmitis to one case in 13,658 operations at an ophthalmology ...
