01-15-2008, 03:06 PM | #1 |
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01-17-2008, 12:12 AM | #2 |
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Very much so. In the community where I practice, when a patient presents with a suspected staph infection (abscess), I will drain the abscess and treat empirically for MRSA with either vancomycin or clindamycin. Reason being that about 30% of these will be MRSA and you can't afford to loose 3 days of treatment waiting for your cultures to come back. About 98 % of the community acquired MRSA is sensitive to clindamycin which also comes in an oral form.
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01-17-2008, 03:00 AM | #4 |
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MRSA is still > 99% sensitive to Vancomycin. If this fails the next is Linezolid (Zyvox).
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