Abstract
Vancomycin has been demonstrated to be an extremely effective antibiotic for the treatment of staphylococcal infections. Striking results have attended its use in staphylococcal bacteremia and endocarditis, clinical situations in which high mortality rates might otherwise be expected.1,2The efficacy of vancomycin relative to other drugs is not yet fully known. In a previous report from this laboratory,3vancomycin was found to be effective in the treatment of staphylococcal infections after bacteriostatic antibiotics, such as novobiocin, chloramphenicol, and erythromycin, in various combinations had failed. Moreover, evidence was obtained which indicated that vancomycin might be curative when other bactericidal drugs had been ineffective. The present study was undertaken to extend these observations by the use of vancomycin for the treatment of staphylococcal infections after therapy with another bactericidal antibiotic had proved unsuccessful. In order to approximate similar bacteriological conditions for comparative purposes, only those patients were selected for vancomycin
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