Comparable Effectiveness of Cefuroxime and Piperacillin-Tazobactam as Empirical Therapy for Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia

Comparable Effectiveness of Cefuroxime and Piperacillin-Tazobactam as Empirical Therapy for Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia

ABSTRACT Our objective was to examine whether empirical antimicrobial therapy (EAT) against methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (MS-SAB) with piperacillin-tazobactam (TZP), cefuroxime or combination therapy with one of these was differentially associated with 7-, 30-, and 90- da...

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Main Authors: Robert Strengen Bigseth, Håkon Sandholdt, Andreas Petersen, Christian Østergaard, Thomas Benfield, Louise Thorlacius-Ussing
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2022-06-01
Series:Microbiology Spectrum
Subjects:
S. aureus
bacteremia
sepsis
empirical therapy
piperacillin-tazobactam
pip-tazo
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.01530-21

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