Are there situations where you would consider treating E faecalis or E faecium that grows from a respiratory culture?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
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 ...