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Are there situations where you would consider treating E faecalis or E faecium that grows from a respiratory culture?

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Infectious Disease · Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
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Pretty much almost never! Enterococcus is not recognized as a pneumonia pathogen. In the setting of a lung abscess, I suppose you could consider treating it as part of a polymicrobial infection. In a heavily immunocompromised patient, it is possible that enterococcus might cause pneumonia—and it has...

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