Successful treatment of relapsed enterococcal endocarditis with amoxicillin/clavulanate: A case report

Enterococcus is considered to be a common cause of endocarditis with unfavorable outcomes. We report a case of successful treatment of relapsed prosthetic valve Enterococcus faecalis endocarditis with oral amoxicillin/clavulanate. Enterococcal endocarditis is associated with a high relapse rate, eve...

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Autores principales: Mahmoud, Ebrahim, Abanamy, Reem, Bosaeed, Mohammad, Elsherif, Zeinelabdien
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Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7044664/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32140411
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00726
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author Mahmoud, Ebrahim
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description Enterococcus is considered to be a common cause of endocarditis with unfavorable outcomes. We report a case of successful treatment of relapsed prosthetic valve Enterococcus faecalis endocarditis with oral amoxicillin/clavulanate. Enterococcal endocarditis is associated with a high relapse rate, even with the recommended treatment duration by the guidelines. Oral therapy is increasingly considered as part of the management of such serious infections.
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spelling pubmed-70446642020-03-05 Successful treatment of relapsed enterococcal endocarditis with amoxicillin/clavulanate: A case report Mahmoud, Ebrahim Abanamy, Reem Bosaeed, Mohammad Elsherif, Zeinelabdien IDCases Article Enterococcus is considered to be a common cause of endocarditis with unfavorable outcomes. We report a case of successful treatment of relapsed prosthetic valve Enterococcus faecalis endocarditis with oral amoxicillin/clavulanate. Enterococcal endocarditis is associated with a high relapse rate, even with the recommended treatment duration by the guidelines. Oral therapy is increasingly considered as part of the management of such serious infections. Elsevier 2020-02-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7044664/ /pubmed/32140411 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00726 Text en © 2020 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title_fullStr Successful treatment of relapsed enterococcal endocarditis with amoxicillin/clavulanate: A case report
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