Doctors at the University of Virginia Health System have significantly reduced MRSA infections among surgical intensive care patients by using antibiotic cycling, a method of rotating drugs at regular intervals. They followed switching between linezolid and vancomycin in 3-months cycles in a Surgical Trauma ICU, and reduced the percentage of MRSA infections of all Staph aureus infections in the ICU from 67% to 36% (ScienceDaily 4th September 2oo8)
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