Effect of antibiotic susceptibility for patients with bloodstream infection

Thursday, October 9, 2014 - 11:30 in Health & Medicine

In an analysis of more than 8,000 episodes of Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections, there were no significant differences in the risk of death when comparing patients exhibiting less susceptibility to the antibiotic vancomycin to patients with more vancomycin susceptible strains of S. aureus, according to a study.

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