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Therapy-refractory Panton Valentine Leukocidin-positive community-acquired methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus sepsis with progressive metastatic soft tissue infection: a case report

Joerg C Schefold*, Fabrizio Esposito, Christian Storm, Dagmar Heuck, Anne Krüger, Achim Jörres, Wolfgang Witte and Dietrich Hasper

Journal of Medical Case Reports 2007, 1:165 doi:10.1186/1752-1947-1-165

Best Treatment for MSSA

Jaques Sztajnbok   (2008-08-27 17:26)  Instituto de Infectologia Emilio Ribas _Sao Paulo Brazil email

Dear authors. I read with great interest your article and I have a question: Why didn't you use oxacillin plus clindamycin since the strain was MSSA and its a wellknokwn fact that oxacillin usually performs very well when treating MSSA associated pneumonias.

Yours

Jaques

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