Tempestuous Course of Enterococcus Infective Endocarditis — From Daptomycin Lung Toxicity to Successful Treatment With Surgery and Fosfomycin Combination Therapy
We report a patient with E. faecalis IE who had allergy to β-lactam and during treatment had developed daptomycin lung toxicity. He was subsequently treated with intravenous fosfomycin and surgery with aortic valve replacement.
Source: Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice - Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Case Reports Source Type: research
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