Antibiotic Resistance
Multidrug Susceptibility Tests May Help Diagnose Community-Acquired Staph. aureus
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, April 11th, 2000
"Community-acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA) is potentially a new emerging pathogen, with recent reports coming from the North-Central U.S. and Western Australia. Most of these strains are unique in that they are susceptible to many antimicrobials except (beta)-lactams," reported N. Suntharam and colleagues from Northwestern University Medical School, Illinois.
The researchers reviewed clindamycin-susceptible MRSA isolates during a 20-month study period that lasted from January 1998 to...
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