Four weeks versus six weeks of ampicillin plus ceftriaxone in Enterococcus faecalis native valve endocarditis: A prospective cohort study

• Antonio Ramos-Martínez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Antonio Ramos-Martínez, Juan Manuel Pericàs

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: aramos220@gmail.com (ARM); jmmiro@ub.edu (JMM)

  Affiliations Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro-Majadahonda, Majadahonda, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Puerta de Hierro-Segovia de Arana (IDIPHISA), Madrid, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4840-9425

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• Juan Manuel Pericàs ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Antonio Ramos-Martínez, Juan Manuel Pericàs

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dirección Clínica Territorial de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Institut de Recerca Biomèdica de Lleida Fundació Dr. Pifarré, Lleida, Spain

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• Ana Fernández-Cruz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro-Majadahonda, Majadahonda, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1189-1120

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• Patricia Muñoz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Servicio de Microbiología Clínica y Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias-CIBERES (CB06/06/0058), Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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• Maricela Valerio,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Servicio de Microbiología Clínica y Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain

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• Martha Kestler,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Servicio de Microbiología Clínica y Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain

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• Miguel Montejo,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital Universitario Cruces, Bilbao, Spain

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• M. Carmen Fariñas,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Diseases Unit, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain

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• Dolores Sousa,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Servicio de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Complejo Hospitalario A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2594-5169

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• Fernando Domínguez,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro-Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain

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• Guillermo Ojeda-Burgos,

  Roles Data curation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Unidad de Gestión Clínica de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria, Málaga, Spain

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• Antonio Plata,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Servicio de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital Regional de Málaga, Málaga, Spain

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• Laura Vidal,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitario Son Espases, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

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• José María Miró ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: aramos220@gmail.com (ARM); jmmiro@ub.edu (JMM)

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Service, Hospital Clinic-IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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• On behalf of the Grupo de Apoyo al Manejo de la Endocarditis Infecciosa en España (GAMES)

  ¶On behalf of the Grupo de Apoyo al Manejo de la Endocarditis Infecciosa en España (GAMES) (see Acknowledgments).

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