Case report of a successful treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteremia and MRSA/vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium cholecystitis by daptomycin

Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2011 May;55(5):2458-9. doi: 10.1128/AAC.01774-10. Epub 2011 Feb 22.

Abstract

A 72-year-old man, receiving 8 mg daptomycin/kg body weight/day for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteremia, was diagnosed with MRSA/vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) cholecystitis (daptomycin MIC values, 1 and 2 mg/liter, respectively). After the fifth drug dose, the bile concentration of daptomycin was 66 mg/liter 5 min after drug administration, with the biliary concentration/MIC values higher than 30 for both bacterial strains. Therefore, daptomycin achieved therapeutic levels in bile, hence suggesting a role for the drug in the treatment of MRSA/VRE cholecystitis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Bacteremia / drug therapy*
  • Bacteremia / microbiology
  • Cholecystitis / drug therapy*
  • Cholecystitis / microbiology*
  • Daptomycin / therapeutic use*
  • Enterococcus faecium / drug effects
  • Enterococcus faecium / pathogenicity*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus / drug effects*
  • Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus / pathogenicity
  • Vancomycin / therapeutic use*

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Vancomycin
  • Daptomycin