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Cohesive Journal of Microbiology & Infectious Disease

Comments of Clinical and Microbiological Experience with Daptomycin in Chronic Osteomyelitis Treatment

  • Open or Close Marcano-Lozada Marcel

    1 Angios Vascular Center & Wound Clinic, Venezuela

    2 JM Vargas School of Medicine, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela

    *Corresponding author: Marcel Marcano-Lozada, MD, Microbiology Department, Medical Doctor, Medical Microbiology Specialist, Medical Microbiology Unit, Angios Vascular Center & Wound Clinic, “J.M. Vargas” School of Medicine, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela

Submission: May 25, 2018; Published: October 24, 2018

DOI: 10.31031/CJMI.2018.02.000535

ISSN: 2578-0190
Volume2 Issue2

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In the last decade, the use of daptomycin (alone or in combination) for the treatment of Chronic Osteomyelitis (CO) due to Staphylococcus aureus shows successful outcomes in the most complicated patients, and emerges as an option to be consider for elderly patients with several associated comorbidities.

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