Vissichelli is an assistant professor of medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she is a transplant infectious diseases attending physician. Her clinical and research interests include managing multidrug-resistant bacterial infections in solid and hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients, as well as diagnostic testing for pneumonia.
Daptomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium bacteremia is an emerging, high-mortality challenge in transplant and other high-risk patients, requiring early recognition, aggressive source control, and reliance on limited alternatives—most notably linezolid—with combination or salvage therapies considered when options are constrained.