Relapse of enterococcal prosthetic valve endocarditis with aortic root abscess following treatment with daptomycin in a patient not fit for surgery

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 482-485

  Enoch, D A ^a   Phillimore, N ^a   Karas, J A ^a   Horswill, L ^a   Mlangeni, D A ^a  

^a PETERBOROUGH DISTRICT HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATININE; DAPTOMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABSCESS; ADD ON THERAPY; AGED; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTIC ROOT ABSCESS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DYSPNEA; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHETIC VALVE ENDOCARDITIS; RECURRENT INFECTION; RELAPSE; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UROSEPSIS; AORTA VALVE; BACTEREMIA; DRUG EFFECT; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ABSCESS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMOXICILLIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AORTIC VALVE; BACTEREMIA; DAPTOMYCIN; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; RECURRENCE;

EID: 77950499312     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.016253-0     Document Type: Article

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