Reply to Gelfand et al and Solla

N. Fernandez-Hidalgo, B. Almirante, A. Pahissa
2013 Clinical Infectious Diseases  
TO THE EDITOR-We appreciate the interest Gelfand et al [1] have shown regarding our observational, nonrandomized, comparative multicenter study [2] . Infective endocarditis (IE) is an uncommon, severe disease [3], and it is inevitable that randomized trials on this condition are lacking. In our observational study, the combination of ampicillin and ceftriaxone (AC) was compared with the standard-of-care ampicillin and gentamicin combination (AG) for treating Enterococcus faecalis IE, but other comparisons
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