title: [The clinical laboratory assessment of vancomycin (Edicin) efficacy in treating suppurative wounds of the skin and soft tissues, burn wounds and the infectious complications of burns].
abstract: Clinical and bacteriological efficacies of vancomycin (Edicin, LEK) in the treatment of 17 patients with wound infection and 13 patients with thermal affections were studied. The clinical efficacy in the group of the patients with purulent wounds of the soft tissues amounted to 94.1 per cent and that in the patients with thermal affections was 92.3 per cent. The bacteriological effect was recorded in 86.6 per cent of the patients with purulent wounds of the soft tissues and in 69.3 per cent of the patients with burn infections. The drug intolerability was observed in two cases.
authors.affiliation: A. V. Vishnevsky Institute of Surgery, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow.
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Blatun
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Krutikov
authors.forename: I A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Grishina
authors.forename: A E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Bobrovnikov
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Alekseev
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Svetukhin
authors.forename: V P
authors.initials: VP
authors.lastname: Iakovlev
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001419:Bacteria / Q000302:isolation & purification; D002056:Burns / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000382:microbiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012867:Skin / Q000293:injuries* / Q000382:microbiology; D017695:Soft Tissue Injuries / Q000188:drug therapy*; D013997:Time Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014640:Vancomycin / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D014946:Wound Infection / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000382:microbiology
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D014640:Vancomycin