Successful Treatment of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus Endocarditis with Oral Linezolid
Clinical Infectious Diseases2001Vol. 32(9), pp. 1373–1375
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Abstract
We report a case of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium endocarditis that failed to respond to sequential monotherapy with chloramphenicol and quinupristin/dalfopristin but was successfully treated with oral linezolid.
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