Failure of Clindamycin Treatment of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Expressing Inducible Clindamycin Resistance in Vitro

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1257-1260

  Siberry, George K ^a,b   Tekle, Tsigereda ^a   Carroll, Karen ^a   Dick, James ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GATIFLOXACIN; LINCOSAMIDE; MACROLIDE; METICILLIN; MIKAMYCIN B; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; ERYTHROMYCIN INDUCTION TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INDUCIBLE ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; INDUCIBLE MACROLIDE LINCOSAMIDE STREPTOGRAMIN B RESISTANCE; LABORATORY TEST; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TREATMENT FAILURE; WOUND INFECTION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINDAMYCIN; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; METHICILLIN; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0242574929     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/377501     Document Type: Article

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