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Successful treatment of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus endocarditis with oral linezolid
H M Babcock1, D J Ritchie, E Christiansen
1Infectious Disease Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA. hbabcock@im.wustl.edu
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.