A 38-year-old male patient presented to the emergency department with fever and dyspnea. Hospitalization was warranted and soon coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was diagnosed based on a positive SARS-CoV-2-PCR. Over the following weeks his condition gradually worsened, leading to admission at the intensive care unit.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: We aimed to determine the noninferiority of fosfomycin compared to ciprofloxacin as an oral step-down treatment for Escherichia coli febrile urinary tract infections (fUTIs) in women.
Methods: This was a double-blind, randomized, controlled trial in 15 Dutch hospitals. Adult women who were receiving 2-5 days of empirical intravenous antimicrobials for E.