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2. Vancomycin - Wikipedia

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   Vancomycin is a glycopeptide antibiotic medication used to treat certain bacterial infections. [7] It is administered intravenously ( injection into a vein ) to treat complicated skin infections , bloodstream infections , endocarditis , bone and joint infections, and meningitis caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus . [ 8 ]

3. Glycopeptide antibiotic - Wikipedia

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   Glycopeptide antibiotics are a class of drugs of microbial origin that are composed of glycosylated cyclic or polycyclic nonribosomal peptides.Significant glycopeptide antibiotics include the anti-infective antibiotics vancomycin, teicoplanin, telavancin, ramoplanin, avoparcin and decaplanin, corbomycin, complestatin and the antitumor antibiotic bleomycin.

4. Drug of last resort - Wikipedia

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   Its use is associated with an increased risk of aplastic anemia and liver failure. [11] Isotretinoin — when all topical treatments or antibiotics against acne have failed, many dermatologists resort to isotretinoin, which is an oral treatment that permanently dries out the sebum production of the skin and is often a permanent solution against ...

5. List of antibiotics - Wikipedia

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   Antibiotics with less reliable but occasional (depending on isolate and subspecies) activity: occasionally penicillins including penicillin, ampicillin and ampicillin-sulbactam, amoxicillin and amoxicillin-clavulnate, and piperacillin-tazobactam (not all vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus isolates are resistant to penicillin and ampicillin)

6. Common antibiotic use linked to rise of ‘almost untreatable ...

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   A common antibiotic used to treat liver disease could give rise to an “almost untreatable” superbug, scientists warned in a new study.. The antibiotic, rifaximin, has enabled the global ...

7. Dalbavancin - Wikipedia

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   Dalbavancin, sold under the brand names Dalvance in the US and Xydalba in the EU (both by AbbVie) among others, is a second-generation lipoglycopeptide antibiotic medication. It belongs to the same class as vancomycin, the most widely used and one of the treatments available to people infected with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ...

8. Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus - Wikipedia

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   The diagnosis of vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) is performed by performing susceptibility testing on a single S. aureus isolate to vancomycin. This is accomplished by first assessing the isolate's minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) using standard laboratory methods, including disc diffusion, gradient strip diffusion, and automated antimicrobial susceptibility testing ...

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