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Enterococcal meningitis: combined vancomycin and rifampin therapy
J L Ryan et al. Am J Med. 1980 Mar.
Abstract
Intrathecal vancomycin and oral rifampin have been used together to successfully treat a patient with enterococcal meningitis who was allergic to penicillin and who had failed a course of treatment with chloramphenicol. This therapy was tolerated very well and represents an alternate mode of therapy which should be considered in penicillin allergic patients with enterococcal meningitis.
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