Treatment failure due to methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin
- 1 November 2001
- journal article
- case report
- Published by AMPCo in The Medical Journal of Australia
- Vol. 175 (9) , 480-483
- https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.2001.tb143681.x
Abstract
We report the first instance in Australia of treatment failure due to a strain of methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin — heteroresistant vancom...Keywords
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