How to Use vancomycin in a Sentence

vancomycin

noun

• First the antibiotic vancomycin was used to knock down the number of microbes in their guts.
  — Bob Roehr, Smithsonian, 14 June 2019
• Even with the current synthesis method, the new vancomycin should be medicinally useful, the study said.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 May 2017
• One patient was first put on the antibiotic vancomycin.
  — Karen Weintraub, Scientific American, 9 Jan. 2020
• Troublingly, one of the 4 had reduced sensitivity to glycopeptides; the chief glycopeptide is vancomycin, which has been the go-to drug for MRSA for 50 years.
  — Maryn McKenna, WIRED, 15 June 2010
• This process has spurred the rise of vancomycin-resistant enterococci, or VRE, three letters that strike fear into hospital staffs the world over.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 May 2017
• Treatment with vancomycin, a powerful antibiotic that is not absorbed in the bloodstream but stays in the gut, could bring temporary relief.
  — Bob Roehr, Smithsonian, 14 June 2019
• Researchers were able to identify a chemical defense from the sponges that appeared more potent than the medicine, vancomycin, given intravenously to combat the C.diff.
  — Anne Geggis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 22 June 2018
• Is vancomycin needed to knock down the existing microbial ecosystem prior to an influx of healthy gut bacteria?
  — Bob Roehr, Smithsonian, 14 June 2019
• In that study, 8 of 10 boys with severe autism showed significant improvements while taking the antibiotic vancomycin.
  — John Rodakis, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2017
• When the team tested bacteria taken from the patient, the microbes that had developed tolerance against vancomycin were also killed more slowly by daptomycin.
  — Karen Weintraub, Scientific American, 9 Jan. 2020
• The strain she was infected with was already resistant to the antibiotic vancomycin, which was traditionally considered the treatment of last resort.
  — Wired, 9 Dec. 2019
• A new version of vancomycin is much more effective at fighting Enterococci bacteria, which is found in hospitals and can cause dangerous wound and blood infections.
  — Elizabeth Roberts, CNN, 30 May 2017
• The comprehensive 2,500-word document took issue with a gamut of things—and recounted an incident in which the plant received a complaint about particulate matter found in an injection of the antibiotic vancomycin.
  — Erika Fry, Fortune, 22 May 2018
• The organisation’s first contract, with Xelia, a Danish drugs firm, is for vancomycin and daptomycin, antibiotics for highly resistant infections.
  — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2019
• Civica Rx, the nonprofit drugmaking venture established by the hospitals, plans to begin distributing vancomycin hydrochloride and daptomycin before the end of September, according to Civica’s chief executive.
  — Melanie Evans, WSJ, 15 May 2019
• Scientists led by Dale Boger introduced three independent modifications into vancomycin, each lethal to bacteria.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 May 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024