The activity of daptomycin against wild-type Staphylococcus aureus and strains with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin [6]

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 798-799

  Sader, Helio S ^a,c   Jones, Ronald N ^a,b  

^a JMI LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DAPTOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIOSTASIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRUG POTENCY; LETTER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DAPTOMYCIN; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VANCOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 33748325718     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/507109     Document Type: Letter

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