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Suggest Treatment For Staph Infection

My dad is 71 years old and he had a knee operation that ended up with a staph-infection and this has been going on now over 2 months in and out of the hospital my question is how many of these operations can his frail body handle and what can i do to bring him home?
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Find out from lab test that staph infection is MRSA or non MRSA. For MRSA, choice of drugs are linezolid, vancomycin etc. For non-MRSA, clindamycin, cifazoline, nefcillin etc are choice of drugs.

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Suggest Treatment For Staph Infection

Hello Welcome to Healthcare magic Find out from lab test that staph infection is MRSA or non MRSA. For MRSA, choice of drugs are linezolid, vancomycin etc. For non-MRSA, clindamycin, cifazoline, nefcillin etc are choice of drugs. Thank you for contacting us.