IDWeek 2015: Adult Infectious Disease

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Tigecycline used as adjunctive therapy for severe Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD) led to higher rates of colectomy and higher mortality, according to results of a multicenter study presented by Candace Marr, DO, from the Catholic Health System and The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, at IDWeek 2015.

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There was no statistically significant difference in clinical outcomes between patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) pneumonia who were treated with linezolid and those treated with vancomycin except mortality, reported ManShan Celica Tong, PharmD, MPH, from Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, at IDWeek 2015.