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Case Study: You are consulted on a patient in the ICU who was admitted 3 days ago with fever, chills, and abdominal pain. She is in septic shock with a multi-drug resistant (MDR) Pseudomonas bacteremia; she also has an unidentifiable yeast growing from both a sputum culture and a urine culture. In gathering a history, you learn the patient recently returned from visiting friends in India. While abroad, she was hospitalized for two weeks due to complications from diabetic gastroparesis. What would be the next best step in clinical management for this patient?

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