%0 Journal Article
%T A Novel Way of Treating Multidrug-resistant Enterococci
%A Ahmed Khurshid Pasha
%A Hem Desai
%A Ryan Wong
%J Archive of "North American Journal of Medical Sciences".
%D 2016
%R 10.4103/1947-2714.183015
%X Daptomycin is the only antibiotic available with in vitro bactericidal activity against vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). Its increased use has resulted in cases of decreased daptomycin efficacy. Recent in vitro studies have shown effective use of beta (¦Â)-lactam and daptomycin antibiotics, as a combination therapy, in the treatment of VRE. We describe a case of effective treatment in a patient with VRE infection using dual ampicillin and daptomycin therapy that shows bench-to-bedside application of the abovementioned finding
%K Daptomycin/beta (¦Â)-lactam
%K daptomycin nonsusceptibility
%K vancomycin-resistant enterococci
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4899964/