Intravenous to oral switch in complicated Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia without endovascular infection: a retrospective single-center cohort study.

In this retrospective cohort study, selected patients with disseminated Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia, but without endovascular infection on echocardiography and 18F-FDG-PET/CT, were free of relapse after iv-oral switch. Mortality was low and similar to patients who received prolonged intravenous treatment. Iv-oral switch was associated with a shorter length of hospital stay.