Treatment of external ventricular drain-associated ventriculitis caused by Enterococcus faecalis with intraventricular daptomycin [7]

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 461-462

  Elvy, Juliet ^a   Porter, David ^a   Brown, Erwin ^a  

^a FRENCHAY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intrathecal; Neurosurgical infections; Ventricular access device

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFTAZIDIME; DAPTOMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN VENTRICULITIS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; COIL EMBOLIZATION; CONFUSION; DEVICE REMOVAL; DRUG CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; DRUG FEVER; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM STAINING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; MALE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; DAPTOMYCIN; DRAINAGE; ENCEPHALITIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38349095293     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkm501     Document Type: Letter

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