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Larry M. Bush, MD, FACP

Bush is an affiliate professor of medicine at the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University, and affiliated associate professor of medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, JFK Medical Center, Palm Beach County, Florida.
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July 01, 2014
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The diminishing value of vancomycin

In the past 20 years, the widespread utilization of vancomycin — a great deal of which was empiric and unwarranted — has led to changes in the antimicrobial susceptibility and, in some cases, the development of resistant Staphylococcus aureus, both of which have been associated with clinical treatment failures.