Intracavitary and systemic daptomycin for successful treatment of a postpneumonectomy intrathoracic infection. Scientific Publication

Oct 24, 2017 | Magazine: Antimicrobial Agents Chemotherapy

Sangro P (1), Carmona-Torre F (1,2), Mesa M (3), Del Pozo JL (2,4), Yuste JR (5,2).

ABSTRACT

Treatment of an infected postneumonectomy cavity is very difficult.

We present a patient with an infection of a postneumonectomy cavity by Staphylococcus epidermidis treated with local daptomycin for different dwell times, maintaining high antibiotic levels over minimum inhibitory concentration. Clinical and microbiological cure were achieved successfully.

CITATION Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2017 Oct 24;61(11):e01330-17. doi: 10.1128/AAC.01330-17. Print 2017 Nov.

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