Colistin Dosage without Loading Dose Is Efficacious when Treating Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Caused by Strains with High Susceptibility to Colistin.

Colistin Dosage without Loading Dose Is Efficacious when Treating Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Caused by Strains with High Susceptibility to Colistin.

This study aims to analyze the mortality and the length of ICU stay (LOS) of A. baumannii VAP compared to respiratory colonization in patients with mechanical ventilation (MV).A prospective cohort study was performed in an ICU of adult patients (February 2010-June 2011). One hundred patients on MV w...

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Main Authors: Rocío Álvarez-Marín, Rafael López-Rojas, Juan Antonio Márquez, María José Gómez, José Molina, José Miguel Cisneros, Carlos Ortiz-Leyba, Javier Aznar, José Garnacho-Montero, Jerónimo Pachón
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5167546?pdf=render

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