Articles | Volume 3, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.7150/jbji.27811
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Original full-length article
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04 Oct 2018
Original full-length article |
| 04 Oct 2018
| 04 Oct 2018
Daptomycin Plus Fosfomycin as Salvage Therapy in a Difficult-to-Treat Total Femoral Replacement Infection
Keywords: prosthetic joint infection, biofilm, Staphylococcus, bone and joint infection
Abstract. The highly active anti-biofilm combination of daptomycin plus fosfomycin was successfully used in a difficult-to-treat infection of a total femoral replacement caused by multi-drug resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis in a 79-year-old woman. There was no need to remove the orthopedic hardware, and the patient is currently pain free and able to walk.
