Vancomycin Is Ineffective in Eliminating Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Colonization of Respiratory Secretions in Ventilated Intensive Care Unit Patients: A Clinical and Pharmacokinetic Perspective

To the Editor—We read Stulik and colleagues' article with much interest, and some aspects deserve comment [1]. In intubated adults in the intensive care unit (ICU), airway colonization is common, with aerobic gram-negative bacilli (GNB) or Staphylococcus aureus often persisting for prolonged periods without progression to ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) [2].

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