Minor emtricitabine intolerance in treatment-stable patients switched from tenofovir/lamivudine to a fixed-dose combination of tenofovir/emtricitabine (Truvada(R))

Abstract

1. Infection in Neurosurgery Working Party of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. The management of neurosurgical patients with postoperative bacterial or aseptic meningitis or external ventricular drain-associated ventriculitis. Br J Neurosurg 2000; 14: 7–12. 2. Shaikh ZH, Peloquin CA, Ericsson CD. Successful treatment of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium meningitis with linezolid; case report and literature review. Scand J Infect Dis 2001; 33: 375–9. 3. Graham PL, Ampofo K, Saiman L. Linezolid treatment of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium ventriculitis. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2002; 21: 798–800. 4. Huovinen P, Kotilainen P. In vitro activity of a new cyclic lipopeptide antibiotic, LY146032, against Gram-positive clinical bacteria. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 1987; 31: 455–7. 5. Cottagnoud P, Pfister M, Acosta F et al. Daptomycin is highly efficacious against penicillin-resistant and penicillinand quinoloneresistant pneumococci in experimental meningitis. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2004; 48: 3928–33. 6. Haworth CS, Sobieski MW, Scheld M et al. Staphylococcus aureus ventriculitis treated with single-dose vancomycin or daptomycin (LY146032): bacterial and antibiotic kinetics in hydrocephalic rabbits. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 1990; 34: 245–51.