What is the preferred antibiotic treatment regimen for vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium endocarditis assuming susceptibility to both daptomycin and linezolid?

Answer from: at Academic Institution

I would use dapto+ceftaroline or +ampicillin. Linezolid lacks cidal activity so less attractive for that reason.

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at Stanford Health Care
Agree, Chip. In addition for the readers, linezoli...

at Stanford
One problem - the distinction of cidal vs static a...