Figure 2.

Patient vignette of a 50-year-old man admitted with fevers, chills, and leukocytosis correlated with central venous catheter infusions. He is started in intravenous vancomycin and the catheter is removed. Symptoms and leukocytosis resolve; blood cultures recovered group B Streptococcus, susceptible to all listed antibiotics. Follow-up blood cultures are negative; N = 466. (A) Which of the listed oral agents respondents would feeling comfortable transitioning to. (B) Would respondents be willing to use an oral antibiotic if the organism was not a group B Streptococcus, but rather ____? (C) Would respondents feel comfortable using an oral agent given the following sources of the Gram-positive bacteremia? TMP/SMX, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole.