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Encyclopedia: Vancomycin

Vancomycin (INN) (IPA: [ˌvæŋkoˈmaɪsən]) is a glycopeptide antibiotic used in the prophylaxis and treatment of infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria. It has traditionally been reserved as a drug of "last resort", used only after treatment with other antibiotics had failed, although the emergence of vancomycin-resistant organisms means that it is increasingly being displaced from this role by linezolid and the carbapenems.

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How to say "Vancomycin" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	萬古黴素
	(Japanese)	バンコマイシン
	(German)	Vancomycin
	(Spanish)	Vancomicina
	(French)	Vancomycine

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Enterococcus

rarely meningitis. This bug is usually sensitive to ampicillin and vancomycin. During the last decade... resistant to both ampicillin and vancomycin...

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Antibiotic resistance

, methicillin, tetracycline and erythromycin. This left vancomycin as the only effective agent available... first commercially available oxazolidinone, linezolid, is comparable to vancomycin in effectiveness against MRSA. However, VRSA (vancomycin resistant Staphylococcus aureus ) was first identified in Japan...

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Staphylococcus aureus

encounter staph strains that resist even vancomycin, which used to work when all else failed...

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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

populations that use intravenous drugs. A last-resort antibiotic, Vancomycin, is used to kill MRSA but... resistance to Vancomycin; those new evolutions of the MRSA bateria are dubbed Vacomycin-intermediate...

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ATC code A07

A07AA08 Kanamycin A07AA09 Vancomycin A07AA10 Colistin A07AA11 Rifaximin A07AA51 Neomycin, combinations...

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Pseudomembranous colitis

associated with risk factors. The disease is ususally treated with metronidazole. Oral vancomycin is an...

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Timeline of antibiotics

erythromycin 1954 benzathine penicillin 1955 spiramycin 1955 tiamphenicol 1955 vancomycin 1956 penicillin V...

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Clostridium difficile

superior tolerability, lower price and comparable efficacy. Oral vancomycin can be used as well. On June...

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List of diseases starting with V

Van Regemorter Pierquin Vamos syndrome Vancomycin-resistant enterococcal bacteremia Varadi Papp...

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Antibiotic

antibiotics vancomycin teicoplanin ramoplanin decaplanin macrolides erythromycin azithromycin...; vancomycin, bacitracin antibiotics which interfere with bacterial protein synthesis antibiotics... narrow selection of drugs such as vancomycin useful for treatment. The situtation is worsened by the...

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