Definition of Vancomycin. Meaning of Vancomycin. Synonyms of Vancomycin

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Definition of Vancomycin

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Meaning of Vancomycin from wikipedia

- Vancomycin is a glycopeptide antibiotic medication used to treat certain bacterial infections. It is administered intravenously (injection into a vein)...
- Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) are strains of Staphylococcus aureus that have acquired resistance to the glycopeptide antibiotic vancomycin...
- Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus, or vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), are bacterial strains of the genus Enterococcus that are resistant to the...
- also developed resistance to vancomycin (VRSA). One strain is only partially susceptible to vancomycin and is called vancomycin-intermediate S. aureus (VISA)...
- Significant glycopeptide antibiotics include the anti-infective antibiotics vancomycin, teicoplanin, telavancin, ramoplanin, avoparcin and decaplanin, corbomycin...
- most Gram-positive bacteria that cause disease, including streptococci, vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus...
- Antibiotics that cover methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): Vancomycin Teicoplanin Linezolid Daptomycin Trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole Doxycycline...
- Homofermentative with strain-specific ability to ferment pentoses, thermophilic, vancomycin-sensitive, adapted to vertebrate or insect hosts. Holzapfelia Wilhelm...
- particularly virulent strains of Enterococcus that are resistant to vancomycin (vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus, or VRE) have emerged in nosocomial infections...
- three days in about 20% of those infected. The antibiotics metronidazole, vancomycin, or fidaxomicin, will cure the infection. Retesting after treatment, as...