Teicoplanin is a less toxic replacement for vancomycin in most situations where resistant organisms are encountered, and is therefore the drug of choice. As a commonly used drug in cardiac surgery, we treated a case of presumptive endocarditis with teicoplanin that caused neutropenic sepsis, unmasked on withdrawal of treatment.
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