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Case report: Prosthetic aortic valve endocarditis due to Staphylococcus epidermidis with acquired resistance in the
Javier Gonzalez Cepeda1, Fernando Lázaro Perona2, Ivan Bloise Sanchez2
1Internal Medicine, La Paz University Hospital. Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Infecciosas (CIBERINFECC), P.° de la Castellana, 261, 28046 Madrid, Spain.
Abstract:
We report the case of a patient with infective endocarditis on a prosthetic aortic valve due to Staphylococcus epidermidis, not a candidate for prosthetic replacement surgery. After three months of supressive treatment with dalbavancin, fever reappears, with growth of S. epidermidis. Susceptibility testing showed new-onset resistance to dalbavancin, with a mutation in walK gene.
