Duration of antibiotic therapy for Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia: the long and the short of it

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¹ Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
² Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA; Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC, USA. Electronic address: vance.fowler@duke.edu.
³ Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA; Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC, USA.

E M Eichenberger et al. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2020 May.

. 2020 May;26(5):536-538.

doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2020.01.003. Epub 2020 Jan 20.

¹ Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
² Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA; Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC, USA. Electronic address: vance.fowler@duke.edu.
³ Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA; Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC, USA.

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Association between treatment duration and mortality or relapse in adult patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia: a retrospective cohort study.
Abbas M, Rossel A, de Kraker MEA, von Dach E, Marti C, Emonet S, Harbarth S, Kaiser L, Uçkay I. Abbas M, et al. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2020 May;26(5):626-631. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2019.07.019. Epub 2019 Jul 26. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2020. PMID: 31357013

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