New Vancomycin Guidelines (AAC ed.)

Discussing new guidelines on the use of vancomycin for severe Staphylocccus aureus infections. The August issue of AAC includes interesting papers about mechanism of resistance to metronidazole in C. difficile, a variant of KPC resistant to ceftazidime-avibactam and description of a new “ultra-broad spectrum B-lactamase inhibitor” among others! You can find the issue at https://aac.asm.org.

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