title: [Improvement of bactericide activity in hospital treatment of gram positive infections].
abstract: Vancomycin is currently the standard treatment of gram-positive bacteria inducted nosocomial infections. However its bactericidal activity may be affected by different factors related to its antibacterial activity, pharmacokinetic properties or the infecting bacteria. Based on these facts, this article reviews the clinical importance that bactericidal activity has against susceptible bacteria and the compromise of this activity due to inadequate pharmacodynamic parameter values. From the bacterial target perspective, the clinical importance of the compromised bactericidal activity due to the decreased susceptibility, tolerance, heteroresistance and resistance is reviewed. In addition the characteristics of an antimicrobial targeted for gram positive nosocomial infections as well as the degree of adhesion to them of the bactericidal antibiotic daptomycin are described.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Medicina de la UCM, Madrid.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Aguilar
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Barberán
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Prieto
authors.forename: Mj
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Giménez
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000188:drug therapy*; D017576:Daptomycin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D024881:Drug Resistance, Bacterial; D016908:Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D014640:Vancomycin / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D014640:Vancomycin; D017576:Daptomycin