PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Thomas G. Fraser AU - Christine Hansen AU - Jennifer K. Long TI - Newer antibiotics for serious gram-positive infections DP - 2006 Sep 01 TA - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine PG - 847--853 VI - 73 IP - 9 4099 - http://www.ccjm.org/content/73/9/847.short 4100 - http://www.ccjm.org/content/73/9/847.full SO - Cleve Clin J Med2006 Sep 01; 73 AB - Four newer antibiotics are available to treat gram-positive bacterial infections that are resistant to traditional antibiotics and to vancomycin. They should preferably be used with the help of an infectious-disease consultant: specific therapy should be chosen on the basis of the bacteria involved, the site of infection, whether the patient has kidney or liver disease, other medications the patient is taking, and side effects that develop.