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Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: using echocardiography to guide length of therapy
Alice I Kim1, Karim A Adal, Steven K Schmitt
1Department of Infectious Disease, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH 44195, USA.
Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
|June 28, 2003
Abstract:
Echocardiography can help distinguish simple and uncomplicated bacteremias from true cases of infective endocarditis and guide the type and duration of antibiotic therapy in a more precise and cost-effective manner. Empiric long-term antibiotic therapy is no longer uniformly recommended for all cases of S aureus bacteremia, although experts disagree about the optimal length of therapy.