Native Valve Endocarditis Caused by Corynebacterium striatum with Heterogeneous High-Level Daptomycin Resistance: Collateral Damage from Daptomycin Therapy?

We describe a patient who developed Corynebacterium striatum native valve endocarditis after receiving two 6-week courses of daptomycin for the treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia and osteomyelitis. The organism exhibited in vitro heteroresistance to daptomycin, with...

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Main Authors: Tran, Truc T., Jaijakul, Siraya, Lewis, Cole T., Diaz, Lorena, Panesso, Diana, Kaplan, Heidi B., Murray, Barbara E., Wanger, Audrey, Arias, Cesar A.
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado em: American Society for Microbiology 2012
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Clinical Therapeutics
Acesso em linha:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3370765/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22450978
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AAC.00046-12
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