A 28-year-old woman with a history of intravenous drug use presents with fever, new cardiac murmur, and embolic phenomena. Blood cultures grow coagulase-positive, DNase-positive Staphylococcus aureus that is resistant to methicillin and oxacillin but susceptible to vancomycin. What is the drug of choice for methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) endocarditis?

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