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Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium endocarditis in a premature infant successfully treated with linezolid
Jocelyn Y Ang1, Jorge L Lua, Daniel R Turner
1Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, USA.
The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
|December 23, 2003
Abstract:
A 4 1/2-month-old, 26-week premature infant with multiple complications of prematurity required a central venous catheter for venous access and antibiotic treatment of bacterial nosocomial infections. He developed tricuspid valve endocarditis with vegetation caused by Enterococcus faecium resistant to ampicillin, vancomycin and quinupristin-dalfopristin but susceptible to linezolid. He was successfully treated with linezolid intravenously (7 weeks) and then orally (2 weeks).