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Sepsis whilst on transplant list

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Has anyone been on a transplant list for liver and kidneys, then caught sepsis through ecoli and been in an induced coma in ICU. If so, how long did it take for the antibiotics to work. My niece is now on the strongest antibiotics vancomycin and days 3 they say they havent started working

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How is your niece doing ? I was put in a induced coma and got a few infections. Must be scary time for you. I hope she has had the TX now xx

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