The efficacy and safety of tigecycline for the treatment of bloodstream infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Abstract Patients with bloodstream infections (BSI) are associated with high mortality rates. Due to tigecycline has shown excellent in vitro activity against most pathogens, tigecycline is selected as one of the candidate drugs for the treatment of multidrug-resistant organisms infections. The purp...

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Main Authors: Jian Wang, Yaping Pan, Jilu Shen, Yuanhong Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-04-01
Series:Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12941-017-0199-8