Abiotrophia spp. and Staphylococcus epidermidis Endocarditis Treated with Daptomycin

Endocarditis due to Abiotrophia spp. occurs in about 5% of endocarditis cases. Most of the cases respond to a combination of penicillin and gentamicin, or vancomycin. We describe a case of Staphylococcus epidermidis (CONS) and Abiotrophia spp. endocarditis that failed vancomycin treatment, but respo...

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Autores principales: Bishburg, E., Ghuman, D., Cohen, A., Chan, T., Nalmas, S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: TheScientificWorldJOURNAL 2008
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Case Study
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5848774/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18690383
http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2008.95
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author Bishburg, E.
Ghuman, D.
Cohen, A.
Chan, T.
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description Endocarditis due to Abiotrophia spp. occurs in about 5% of endocarditis cases. Most of the cases respond to a combination of penicillin and gentamicin, or vancomycin. We describe a case of Staphylococcus epidermidis (CONS) and Abiotrophia spp. endocarditis that failed vancomycin treatment, but responded to daptomycin and rifampin.
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spelling pubmed-58487742018-04-17 Abiotrophia spp. and Staphylococcus epidermidis Endocarditis Treated with Daptomycin Bishburg, E. Ghuman, D. Cohen, A. Chan, T. Nalmas, S. ScientificWorldJournal Case Study Endocarditis due to Abiotrophia spp. occurs in about 5% of endocarditis cases. Most of the cases respond to a combination of penicillin and gentamicin, or vancomycin. We describe a case of Staphylococcus epidermidis (CONS) and Abiotrophia spp. endocarditis that failed vancomycin treatment, but responded to daptomycin and rifampin. TheScientificWorldJOURNAL 2008-08-08 /pmc/articles/PMC5848774/ /pubmed/18690383 http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2008.95 Text en Copyright © 2008 E. Bishburg et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Abiotrophia spp. and Staphylococcus epidermidis Endocarditis Treated with Daptomycin
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title_full Abiotrophia spp. and Staphylococcus epidermidis Endocarditis Treated with Daptomycin
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title_short Abiotrophia spp. and Staphylococcus epidermidis Endocarditis Treated with Daptomycin
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