In vitro activities of tigecycline and 10 other antimicrobials against nonpigmented rapidly growing mycobacteria

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4184-4186

  Fernandez Roblas R ^a   Martin de Hijas N Z ^a   Fernandez Martinez A I ^a   Garcia Almeida D ^a   Gadea, I ^a   Esteban, J ^a  

^a Hospital UniversitarioFundación Jiménez Díaz   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFOXITIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; TIGECYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GROWTH INHIBITION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; MYCOBACTERIUM ALVEI; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONEI; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM MAGERITENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM PEREGRINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM PORCINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SEPTICUM; MYCOBACTERIUM WOLINSKYI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MINOCYCLINE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; PIGMENTATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 55849089598     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00695-08     Document Type: Article

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