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Antimicrobial Original Research Paper

The current role of glycopeptides in the treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections in not neutropenic adults: the viewpoint of a group of Italian experts

Ercole ConciaUniversità degli Studi di Verona, Italy - Dipartimento Diagnostica e Sanità Pubblica - Sezione Malattie InfettiveCorrespondence[email protected]
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Claudio ViscoliA.O.U. IRCCS San Martino/Università degli Studi, Genova, Italy - Clinica delle Malattie Infettive
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Valerio Del BonoA.O.U. IRCCS San Martino/Università degli Studi, Genova, Italy - Clinica delle Malattie Infettive
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Maddalena GiannellaUniversità degli Studi di Bologna/Ospedale Sant’Orsola-Malpighi, Bologna, Italy - Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche, Settore Malattie Infettive
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Matteo BassettiA.O.U. Santa Maria della Misericordia, Udine, Italy - Clinica di Malattie Infettive (Bassetti), Istituto di Farmacologia Clinica (Pea)
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Giuseppe Francesco De RosaUniversità degli Studi di Torino, Italy - Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche, Malattie Infettive
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Emanuele Durante MangoniUniversità degli Studi della Campania Luigi VanvitelliORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-5381-3537
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Silvano EspositoUniversità degli Studi di Salerno, Italy, Dipartimento di Medicina, Chirurgia e Odontoiatria “Scuola Medica Salernitana”
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Massimo GiustiA.O. San Giovanni Bosco, Torino, Italy - Reparto di Medicina Interna A
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Paolo GrossiUniversità degli Studi dell'Insubria, Varese, Italy - Dipartimento di Medicina Interna - Malattie infettive e tropicali
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Francesco MenichettiA.O.U. Pisana, Pisa, Italy - Direttore di Unità Operativa - U.O. Malattie Infettive
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Federico PeaA.O.U. Santa Maria della Misericordia, Udine, Italy - Clinica di Malattie Infettive (Bassetti), Istituto di Farmacologia Clinica (Pea)
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Nicola PetrosilloIstituto Nazionale Malattie Infettive “Lazzaro Spallanzani”, Roma, Italy - U.O.C. Infezioni Sistemiche e dell’Immunodepresso
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Mario TumbarelloUniversità Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italy - Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Clinica delle Malattie Infettive
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Stefania StefaniUniversità degli Studi di Catania, Italy - Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche e Biotecnologiche
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Mario VendittiUniversità “La Sapienza”/A.O. Policlinico Umberto I, Roma, Italy - Dipartimento di Sanità Pubblica e Malattie Infettive
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Pierluigi VialeUniversità degli Studi di Bologna/Ospedale Sant’Orsola-Malpighi, Bologna, Italy - Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche, Settore Malattie Infettive
& on behalf of the group of Italian Experts show all
Pages 157-171 | Published online: 30 Jan 2018
 
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Abstract

Staphylococcus aureus is still an important problem in clinical and therapeutic area, worldwide. In Italy, in recent years, methicillin resistance remained stable, yet considerably high, the percentage of strains of MRSA being around 40%. It was deemed interesting and timely to carry out a consensus conference using the RAND/UCLA method to collect the opinion of a group of experts in infectious diseases on the role of glycopeptides in the management of MRSA infections within several clinical scenarios and namely in pneumonia, bacteremia and endocarditis, joint replacement infections, skin and soft tissue infections, diabetic foot, abdominal infections and central nervous system infections. The scenarios proposed by the Scientific Committee have been validated by a group of experts in infectious diseases and then voted in three meetings of infectious disease specialists. The results obtained on each individual condition were analyzed and therapeutic recommendations on each of these were released.

Acknowledgements

Editorial assistance for the manuscript was provided by HEALTH&LIFE S.r.l. and supported by Sanofi SpA (Italy).

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