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The complications of correct treatment of intravascular infections are those that one would expect with long-term high-dose antibiotic therapy. The physician must be particularly alert to the development of vestibular disturbances (20–30% of patients treated with recommended regimen for enterococcal endocarditis) due to streptomycin therapy and to discontinue streptomycin after 4 weeks when this is detected.
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Colvin, B., Rogers, M., Layton, C.: Case report: Benzylpenicillin-induced leucopenia—Complication of treatment of bacterial endocarditis. Br. Heart J. 36: 216–219, 1974.
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Freedman, L.R. (1982). Complications of Treatment. In: Infective Endocarditis and Other Intravascular Infections. Current Topics in Infectious Disease. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8208-9_11
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