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What Infection That Usually Goes Along With Staph?
What infection that usually goes along with staph, would require IV levofloxacin for 6 weeks in picc line. Injury was broken leg with compartment syndrome, fasciotomy and former gram negative rods infection. This is not gram negative rods, but my son was discharged & can't remember name of infection. e coli? camplylobacter?
Mon, 21 Nov 2016
Levofloxacin exerts antibacterial action by inhibiting bacterial topoisomerase IV and DNA gyrase, the enzymes required for DNA replication, transcription repair and recombination. It has in vitro activity against a wide range of gm-ve and gm+ve microorganisms.So it is used in various infections.
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