She was prescribed ampicillin for MRSA (resistant staph)?  If so, the
infection was not appropriately treated (both penicillins).  Though I
don't know how these drugs work in breast infections, we use vancomycin or
linezolid for MRSA in the ICU patients.  Could the multiple infections be
coming from an abscess?  Just musing, no real experience here.

Shannon Tierney McElearney, MD
PGY3, General Surgery
currently lab resident in the Surgical Infectious Diseases Research Lab
University of Virginia

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