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01-04-2000 | Adis New Drug Profiles
Linezolid
A Viewpoint by Richard Wise
Author:
Richard Wise
Published in:
Drugs
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Issue 4/2000
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Excerpt
To anyone working in the clinical area of infection in hospitals (and increasingly in the community), the problems of treating Gram-positive coccal infections are well known. Methicillin-resistant staphylococcal infection is widespread, vancomycin-resistant enterococcal disease is a particular problem in many units, and the increasing incidence of penicillin (and hence β-lactam) resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae causes concern. …