High-dose daptomycin and fosfomycin treatment of a patient with endocarditis caused by daptomycin-nonsusceptible Staphylococcus aureus: Case report

BACKGROUND: Emergence of daptomycin-nonsusceptible (DNS) Staphylococcus aureus is a dreadful problem in the treatment of endocarditis. Few current therapeutic agents are effective for treating infections caused by DNS S. aureus. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe the emergence of DNS S. aureus. in a pat...

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Main Authors: Chen, Liang-Yu, Huang, Cheng-Hsiung, Kuo, Shu-Chen, Hsiao, Chen-Yuan, Lin, Mei-Lin, Wang, Fu-Der, Fung, Chang-Phone
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2011
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Case Report
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3119071/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21612672
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-11-152
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