Fig 2. Kaplan-Meier analysis of 90 days survival in 307 Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia patients with a deep infection focus according to rifampicin therapy (Log-Rank 0.000).

The exclusion criteria were: patients with fatal outcome within 3 days of positive blood cultures, patients with alcoholism, acute or chronic liver diseases and patients without a deep infection foci. Patients with methicillin-resistant S. aureus bacteraemia were not included in the study (n = 6).