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• n  an antibiotic (trade name Vancocin) effective against some bacterial infections

• Even more worrisome, insensitivity to vancomycin-which nurses and physicians in intensive-care units refer to as the big gun-is showing up in the .
• Even more worrisome, insensitivity to vancomycin--which nurses and physicians in intensive-care units refer to as the big gun--is showing up in the dangerous family of .
• Then it slowly became resistant to one antibiotic after another until finally only one, vancomycin, remained to subdue all staph strains.

• Vancocin

News & Articles

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• How superbug spreads among regional hospitals: A domino effect
  A moderate increase in vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) at one hospital can lead to a nearly 3 percent increase in VRE in every other hospital in that county, according to a new study.
  July 30, 2013 - Science Daily

Quotes

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• Hank McKinnell in Bloomberg
  On July 20, 2005, the FDA sent a letter to Hank McKinnell, then Pfizer's CEO, saying, "Your misleading promotion of Zyvox, and in particular your unsubstantiated implied claims regarding its superiority to vancomycin, poses serious health and safety...