| Title | Success of ampicillin plus ceftriaxone rescue therapy for a relapse of Enterococcus faecalis native-valve endocarditis and in vitro data on double beta-lactam activity. | | Author(s) | Miro JM, Cervera C, Garcia-de-la-Maria C, Del Rio A, Armero Y, Mestres CA, Grau JM, Marco F, Moreno A | | Institution | From the Infectious Diseases Service, Microbiology Service, Barcelona, Spain. | | Source | Scand J Infect Dis 2008 Sep 3.:1-5. | | Abstract | We report a patient with Enterococcus faecalis native-valve endocarditis who relapsed after 4 weeks of treatment with ampicillin plus gentamicin. The relapse was cured with ampicillin plus ceftriaxone, which was introduced after gentamicin-induced acute renal failure. This double beta-lactam combination showed a bactericidal effect in time-killing curve studies. | | Language | ENG | | Pub Type(s) | JOURNAL ARTICLE
| | PubMed ID | 18767002 |
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