A last-resort therapy using an antibiotic called vancomycin had failed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

S. aureus on exposure to vancomycin, which is known to actively disrupted bacterial cell wall. doi: 10.1371 / journal. pone.0005470.g005.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The current treatment is with an antibiotic called vancomycin, but the fear is that the bacteria could become resistant to this drug, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [BusinessWeek.com --] Reference

CDAD consist of narrow-spectrum antibiotics, such as vancomycin or metronidazole that may impede regrowth of the normal colonic bacteria.    From Wordnik.com.  [Business Wire Travel News] Reference

These can still be thwarted by antibiotics such as vancomycin.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Superbugs' That Strike the Sickest Patients] Reference

This happened recently when one of my patients needed vancomycin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medpundit] Reference

Some 40 percent of staph in hospitals are resistant to every antibiotic but one, vancomycin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End Of Antibiotics] Reference

"If resistance does spread and we don't have a good drug to replace vancomycin we're in trouble," warns Fauci.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antibiotics] Reference

More than half the strains of Staphylococcus aureus, which causes blood poisoning, resist everything but vancomycin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End Of Antibiotics?] Reference

The number is rising: in 1989, only one hospital in New York reported vancomycin-resistant enteroccocus; in 1991, 38 did.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End Of Antibiotics] Reference

Another drug effective against MRSA, vancomycin, is only available intravenously, and its use decreased during the study.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surge Seen in Children Hospitalized With MRSA] Reference

My body is riddled with cancers, but this is recent: a necrotizing illness that failed to respond to penicillin and vancomycin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Whisperers] Reference

Now cases of partial resistance to vancomycin are being reported, and it may not be long before strains with full resistance emerge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antibiotics] Reference

Because once they find out and culture that it is, they can immediately give you vancomycin (ph), which is the antibiotic that treats it.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 12, 2007] Reference

Indeed, vancomycin is an analogue of avoparcin, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

S. aureus (VISA) and 3 vancomycin resistant S. aureus.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

For more severe symptoms vancomycin (Vancocin) may be used.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference

Lactobacillus sp in patients who had been treated by vancomycin.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

If MRSA became vancomycin-resistant, we would be in a lot of trouble.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

B. Effects of HT61, vancomycin, daptomycin and mupirocin against MRSA.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The MIC of HT61 was determined using 45 MRSA, 11 vancomycin-intermediate.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

MRSA infections are often treated with vancomycin administered intravenously.    From Wordnik.com.  [RedOrbit News - Technology] Reference

Antibiotics, such as avoparcin (a vancomycin analogue), and probiotics, such as.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

(MIC90 of 1 microgram/ml) or vancomycin (MIC90 of less than or equal to 1 microgram/ml).    From Wordnik.com. Reference

CNS = coagulase negative staphylococci; VRE = vancomycin resistant enterococci Chest 2000.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Indeed, all three vancomycin-treated patients with these characteristics developed obesity.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Lactobacillus species are thought to be growth promoters, with an intrinsic vancomycin-resistance.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

ARIs include methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), vancomycin-resistant enterococci.    From Wordnik.com.  [YubaNet.com] Reference

However, both vancomycin and mupirocin at 100 µg/ml showed no activity against the same cultures.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

E. faecalis are generally susceptible to ampicillin and rarely resistant to vancomycin, infections with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference

Slightly fewer than 13 percent of patients had a recurrence, roughly half the rate of the vancomycin group.    From Wordnik.com.  [FierceBiotech]

Lactobacillus sp in patients treated with vancomycin is at this time only speculative and needs to be confirmed.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The risk of obesity is particularly high in vancomycin-treated male patients older than 65 who did not undergo cardiac surgery.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

In both of these studies, VIBATIV achieved its primary endpoint of non-inferiority relative to the standard of care, vancomycin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference

In the latest trial researchers report that the drug cured 91.7 percent of patients compared to 90.6 percent treated with vancomycin.    From Wordnik.com.  [FierceBiotech]

E. faecium and other enterococci (OE) are frequently resistant to both ampicillin and vancomycin (VRE - vancomycin-resistant enterococci).    From Wordnik.com.  [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference