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Do you treat Stenotrophomonas maltophilia bacteremia with combination therapy and if so, what is your preferred combination of antibacterials?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
Yes, I would use two agents, at least up front, as recommended in the 2024 IDSA guidelines (Tamma et al, PMID 39108079). The guidelines suggest two of the following agents should be used, unless the combination of ceftazidime-avibactam plus aztreonam is used instead: cefiderocol, TMP/SMX, levofloxac...
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Answer from: at Academic Institution
Yes – in the form of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. I do not use additional drugs with it – so no. Trimethoprim-sulfa is almost always active and has a great deal of experience and literature to support its use. If it cannot be used a number of other choices have been suggested such...
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at Saint Francis Hospital
The vast majority of my patients with invasive Ste...
The vast majority of my patients with invasive Ste...
at Stanford
Based on published in vitro susceptibility data an...
Based on published in vitro susceptibility data an...