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- Title
Initial low-dose gentamicin for Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia and endocarditis is nephrotoxic.
- Authors
Cosgrove, Sara E; Vigliani, Gloria A; Fowler, Vance G, Jr; Abrutyn, Elias; Corey, G Ralph; Levine, Donald P; Rupp, Mark E; Chambers, Henry F; Karchmer, Adolf W; Boucher, Helen W
- Abstract
The safety of adding initial low-dose gentamicin to antistaphylococcal penicillins or vancomycin for treatment of suspected Staphylococcus aureus native valve endocarditis is unknown. This study evaluated the association between this practice and nephrotoxicity.
- Publication
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2009, Vol 48, Issue 6, p713
- ISSN
1537-6591
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1086/597031