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Do you routinely transition to PO antibiotics for patients with native joint septic arthritis whom have undergone washout and the organism is not S. aureus?

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Infectious Disease · University of Michigan

Yes. Even if the organism is Staph aureus, I would feel comfortable with an appropriate, highly bioavailable oral antibiotics after appropriate source control (linezolid in the case of Staph aureus).

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