| 1. | Vancomycin is the last effective agent for treatment of serious infections.
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| 2. | As such, the glycopeptide vancomycin is often deployed against MRSA.
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| 3. | This may include a combination of cephalosporins, penicillins or vancomycin.
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| 4. | Normally, vancomycin begins attacking staph in the bloodstream immediately.
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| 5. | "We call vancomycin ` the big gun, "'
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| 6. | Three years ago MRSA bugs partly resistant to vancomycin emerged in Japan.
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| 7. | Now it is developing resistance to vancomycin, the main backup drug.
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| 8. | This left vancomycin as the only effective agent available at the time.
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| 9. | Eli Lilly first marketed vancomycin hydrochloride under the trade name Vancocin
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| 10. | In the 1950s Lilly introduced two new antibiotics : vancomycin and erythromycin.
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