Antimicrobial Resistance
Antimicrobial agents have excellent activity against recently recovered MRSA isolates
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, October 17th, 2006
"The in vitro activities of 22 antimicrobial agents, including ceftobiprolle, daptomycin, and tigecycline, against 511 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates from 112 Belgian hospitals were studied by using the CLSI agar dilution method.
"Isolates were characterized by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) analysis and by PCR detection of determinants of resistance to aminoglycosides, macrolides-lincosamides-streptogramins, and tetracyclines," wrote investigators in...
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