Reply to Al-Hasan et al

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
² Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia.
³ Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, The University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁵ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.

Comment

Darunee Chotiprasitakul et al. Clin Infect Dis. 2018.

. 2018 Jun 1;66(12):1979-1981.

doi: 10.1093/cid/ciy046.

¹ Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
² Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia.
³ Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, The University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁵ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.

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Duration of Antimicrobial Therapy for Enterobacteriaceae Bacteremia: Using Convenient End Points for Convenient Conclusions.
Al-Hasan MN, Albrecht H, Bookstaver PB, Kohn J, Justo JA. Al-Hasan MN, et al. Clin Infect Dis. 2018 Jun 1;66(12):1978-1979. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciy043. Clin Infect Dis. 2018. PMID: 29365087 No abstract available.