Treatment of Multidrug‐Resistant<i>Acinetobacter baumannii</i>Ventilator‐Associated Pneumonia (VAP) with Intravenous Colistin: A Comparison with Imipenem‐Susceptible VAP

Garnacho‐Montero, José; Ortíz-Leyba, Carlos; J. Jiménez-Jiménez, F.; Barrero-Almodóvar, A; García Garmendia, J.L.; Bernabeu‐WittelI, M.; L. Gallego‐Lara, S.; Madrazo-Osuna, Juan

doi:10.1086/374337

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Treatment of Multidrug‐ResistantAcinetobacter baumanniiVentilator‐Associated Pneumonia (VAP) with Intravenous Colistin: A Comparison with Imipenem‐Susceptible VAP

Published in Clinical Infectious Diseases • May 1, 2003

Authors:

José Garnacho‐Montero

Carlos Ortíz-Leyba

F. J. Jiménez-Jiménez

Abstract

We prospectively evaluated the efficacy and toxicity of intravenously administered colistin in 35 episodes of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) due to multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii. Microbiological diagnosis was performed with use of quantitative culture. In 21 patients, the episod...

Subject

Medicine

Colistin

Acinetobacter baumannii

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