Experience with daptomycin for chronic periprosthetic joint infections

Werner Zimmerli, Andrej Trampuz, Prosthetic joint infections: update in diagnosis and treatment. Swiss Medical Weekly. ,vol. 135, pp. 243- 251 ,(2005)

Issam I. Raad, Hend A. Hanna, Maha Boktour, Gassan Chaiban, Ray Y. Hachem, Tanya Dvorak, Russell Lewis, Barbara E. Murray, Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium: Catheter Colonization, esp Gene, and Decreased Susceptibility to Antibiotics in Biofilm Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. ,vol. 49, pp. 5046- 5050 ,(2005) , 10.1128/AAC.49.12.5046-5050.2005

M. K. Hayden, K. Rezai, R. A. Hayes, K. Lolans, J. P. Quinn, R. A. Weinstein, Development of Daptomycin Resistance In Vivo in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Journal of Clinical Microbiology. ,vol. 43, pp. 5285- 5287 ,(2005) , 10.1128/JCM.43.10.5285-5287.2005

Werner Zimmerli, Andrej Trampuz, Peter E. Ochsner, Prosthetic-Joint Infections The New England Journal of Medicine. ,vol. 351, pp. 1645- 1654 ,(2004) , 10.1056/NEJMRA040181

Emily W. Hall, Mark S. Rouse, David J. Jacofsky, Douglas R. Osmon, Arlen D. Hanssen, James M. Steckelberg, Robin Patel, Release of daptomycin from polymethylmethacrylate beads in a continuous flow chamber Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease. ,vol. 50, pp. 261- 265 ,(2004) , 10.1016/J.DIAGMICROBIO.2004.03.004

A. Mangili, I. Bica, D. R. Snydman, D. H. Hamer, Daptomycin-Resistant, Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia Clinical Infectious Diseases. ,vol. 40, pp. 1058- 1060 ,(2005) , 10.1086/428616

Vance G. Fowler, Helen W. Boucher, G. Ralph Corey, Elias Abrutyn, Adolf W. Karchmer, Mark E. Rupp, Donald P. Levine, Henry F. Chambers, Francis P. Tally, Gloria A. Vigliani, Christopher H. Cabell, Arthur Stanley Link, Ignace DeMeyer, Scott G. Filler, Marcus Zervos, Paul Cook, Jeffrey Parsonnet, Jack M. Bernstein, Connie Savor Price, Graeme N. Forrest, Gerd Fätkenheuer, Marcelo Gareca, Susan J. Rehm, Hans Reinhardt Brodt, Alan Tice, Sara E. Cosgrove, Daptomycin versus Standard Therapy for Bacteremia and Endocarditis Caused by Staphylococcus aureus The New England Journal of Medicine. ,vol. 355, pp. 653- 665 ,(2006) , 10.1056/NEJMOA053783

Linda M. Weigel, Rodney M. Donlan, Dong Hyeon Shin, Bette Jensen, Nancye C. Clark, Linda K. McDougal, Wenming Zhu, Kimberlee A. Musser, Jill Thompson, Donna Kohlerschmidt, Nellie Dumas, Ronald J. Limberger, Jean B. Patel, High-Level Vancomycin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Isolates Associated with a Polymicrobial Biofilm Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. ,vol. 51, pp. 231- 238 ,(2007) , 10.1128/AAC.00576-06

Cheryl A. Burns, Daptomycin-rifampin for a recurrent MRSA joint infection unresponsive to vancomycin-based therapy Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases. ,vol. 38, pp. 133- 136 ,(2006) , 10.1080/00365540500277292

Nalini Rao, Bruce H Ziran, Ronald A Hall, Elizabeth R Santa, Successful treatment of chronic bone and joint infections with oral linezolid. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. ,vol. 427, pp. 67- 71 ,(2004) , 10.1097/01.BLO.0000144860.11193.5E