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Internal Medicine
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Infectious Disease
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General Infectious Disease
What is your recommendation for timing of urgent chemotherapy in patients with staph aureus bacteremia or endocarditis who require prolonged durations?
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What workup is sufficient to determine if an aortic aneurysm is "mycotic/infectious" or not, in that you would not prescribe empiric antibiotic therapy?
Do you recommend using topical metronidazole for managing odor related to pressure ulcers?
Do you routinely transition from inpatient vancomycin to outpatient daptomycin to decrease the risk of nephrotoxicity and reduce the burden of lab monitoring in a patient with MRSA infection being discharged on home IV antibiotics?
In a patient with vaginal itching and a vaginal swab with a positive Candida glabrata NAAT, what is your first-line therapy?
