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Bacteremia and infective endocarditis caused by a non-daptomycin-susceptible, vancomycin-intermediate, and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain in Taiwan.

Huang YT, Hsiao CH, Liao CH, Lee CW, Hsueh PR

Department of Internal Medicine, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, Taipei County, Taiwan.

We describe the development of nonsusceptibility to daptomycin and vancomycin during treatment for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteremia associated with infective endocarditis and probable septic thrombophlebitis in a uremic patient. MRSA bacteremia persisted during glycopeptide and subsequent daptomycin treatment but cleared after 5 days' treatment with linezolid and fusidic acid.

Published 10 March 2008 in J Clin Microbiol, 46(3): 1132-6.
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