Amikacin concentrations and target ranges for mycobacterial infection

Cairney, Tamara M and Bao, Lock and Robb, Fiona and Thomson, Alison H (2016) Amikacin concentrations and target ranges for mycobacterial infection. In: Federation of Infection Societies/Healthcare Infection Society, 2016-11-05 - 2016-11-07, Edinburgh International Conference Centre.

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Abstract

The aim of this research is to determine whether amikacin dosage guidelines for multi - drug resistant mycobacterial infections achieve peaks of 35 - 45 mg/L (OD) or 65 - 80 mg/L (TW) and troughs <5 mg/L.