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  • Title: Treatment of Staphylococcus epidermidis ventriculo-peritoneal shunt infection with linezolid.
    Author: Gill CJ, Murphy MA, Hamer DH.
    Journal: J Infect; 2002 Aug; 45(2):129-32. PubMed ID: 12217722.
    Abstract:
    Gram-positive bacterial meningitis frequently complicates ventriculo-peritoneal (VP) shunts used for hydrocephalus. Linezolid, an oxazolidinone, is active against Gram-positive cocci, and has excellent CSF penetration. We present a 22-year-old woman who was cured of a Staphylococcus epidermidis VP shunt infection via shunt removal and intravenous linezolid.
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