Vancomycin Monotherapy May Be Insufficient to Treat Methicillin-resistant <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> Coinfection in Children With Influenza-related Critical Illness

Adrienne G. Randolph, Ruifei Xu, Tanya Novak, Margaret M. Newhams, Juliane Bubeck Wardenburg, Scott L. Weiss, Ronald C. Sanders, Neal J. Thomas, Mark W. Hall, Keiko M. Tarquinio,

Clinical Infectious Diseases · 2018 · 50 citations · 36 references

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Abstract

Influenza-MRSA coinfection is associated with high fatality in critically ill children. These data support early addition of a second anti-MRSA antibiotic to vancomycin in suspected severe cases.

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