Successful Treatment of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus Endocarditis with Oral Linezolid
- 1 May 2001
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 32 (9), 1373-1375
- https://doi.org/10.1086/319986
Abstract
We report a case of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium endocarditis that failed to respond to sequential monotherapy with chloramphenicol and quinupristin/dalfopristin but was successfully treated with oral linezolid.Keywords
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