Results: 14

A retrospective analysis to estimate trough concentrations of teicoplanin in patients with suspected or documented Gram-positive infections

Abstract Teicoplanin is a glycopeptide antibiotic commonly used to treat Gram-positive bacterial infections in the clinic. The aim of this study was to provide a therapeutic reference for the clinical application and dosage regimen adjustment of teicoplanin by identifying factors associated with its plas...

Antibioticoterapia y nuevas terapias no farmacológicas en infecciones por clostridium diffici

Med. leg. Costa Rica; 34 (1), 2017
Resumen:La infección por Clostridium difficile es la principal causa de diarrea infecciosa en pacientes hospitalizados. Los pacientes pueden ser portadores asintomáticos o presentar desde una diarrea leve a una colitis pseudomembranosa, megacolon tóxico, sepsis y muerte. El manejo de esta infección s...

Antimicrobial susceptibility of Brazilian Clostridium difficile strains determined by agar dilution and disk diffusion

Braz. j. infect. dis; 20 (5), 2016
Abstract Clostridium difficile is a leading cause of diarrhea in hospitalized patients worldwide. While metronidazole and vancomycin are the most prescribed antibiotics for the treatment of this infection, teicoplanin, tigecycline and nitazoxanide are alternatives drugs. Knowledge on the antibiotic susce...

La teicoplanina en la profilaxis de infecciones quirúrgicas y endocarditis bacteriana
[Teicoplanin in the prophylaxis of surgical infections and bacterial endocarditis]

Medicina (B.Aires); 62 Suppl 2 (), 2002
Antibiotic prophylaxis has become a standard of care in all surgical categories, since its impact in reducing the incidence of post-operative infections has now been well established. Antibiotic prophylaxis should target expected pathogens. Glycopeptide-based regimens have been considered a choice for su...

Nuevas modalidades terapéuticas en el uso de teicoplanina
[New therapeutic strategies with teicoplanin]

Medicina (B.Aires); 62 Suppl 2 (), 2002
Teicoplanin is a glycopeptide antibiotic with similar spectrum to vancomycin. However, unlike this drug, teicoplanin can be administered by i.v. or i.m. route once daily thanks to its long half-life (88 to 182 hours). This pharmacokinetic characteristic is particularly interesting in infections that requ...

Evaluación in vitro de linezolid frente a staphylococcus aureus meticilina resistentes aislados de infecciones osteo-articulares
In vitro evaluation of linezolid against methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus isolated from osteoarticular infections

Rev. chil. infectol; 18 (3), 2001
En este trabajo se analiza la susceptibilidad in vitro de 64 cepas de Staphylococcus aureus meticilina resistentes (SAMR), aisladas de procesos infecciosos osteo-articulares frente a linezolid y se compara con la de teicoplanina. El 100 por ciento de las cepas analizadas fue inhibido por linezoid entre 0...

Glicopéptidos en el tratamiento de infecciones por microorganismo gram positivos
Glycopeptides in the treatment of gram positive infections

Rev. chil. infectol; 17 (supl.1), 2000
Glycopeptides have become a very important class of antibiotics because its widespread usage, the emergence of resistance to this antibiotics and need for new antibiotics to treat serious resistant gram positive infections. We discuss the general characteristics of this class of antibiotics, resistance t...