To the Editor: We read with interest the case report of Ward and colleagues, describing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin in a patient being treated for lower-limb ischaemia.1 We conclude that this antibiotic resistance may not have developed if the patient had been treated with conventional vascular therapy.
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