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Medicines update
What do I need to know about glycopeptide antibiotics?
Abstract
Glycopeptides have been crucial in the fight against Gram-positive pathogens with their use within paediatrics becoming ever prevalent. This article reviews the pharmacology of the commonly used glycopeptides, vancomycin and teicoplanin, and discusses the practical aspects of their use in the clinical setting.
- Therapeutics
- Toxicology
- Pharmacology
- General Paediatrics
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Footnotes
Contributors SL wrote the main manuscript and ESS reviewed and made major amendments and submitted the article.
Competing interests None declared.
Provenance and peer review Commissioned; externally peer reviewed.