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seen sepsis/intra abd infxn with eggerthella bacteremia.
Zosyn + Flagyl
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29373647
Thank you for the reference Eli!
Once you know it is Eggerthella would you switch to metronidazole monotherapy?
He was in florid septic shock with a perfed bowel and eggerthella bacteremia…so I didn’t argue…but could have done cefepime/flagyl to cover gut and eggerthella