Do you manage antibacterials for enterococcal bacteremia differently in patients with severe immunosuppression?
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Infectious Disease · National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
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Infectious Disease · Mayo
I can think of a few examples involving severely immunosuppressed patients at risk for enterococcal bacteremia: (i) allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant recipients with graft-versus-host disease affecting the bowel and (ii) liver transplant recipients with postoperative bile leak. There are seve...