Article
Synergy testing of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium against quinupristin-dalfopristin in combination with other antimicrobial agents.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Nov 1999
Matsumura S O, Louie L, Louie M, Simor A E
Abstract excerpt
Using checkerboard and time-kill assays, we evaluated the in vitro activity of quinupristin-dalfopristin (RP 59500) alone and in combination with five other antimicrobial agents against 12 clinical strains of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREF). In time-kill studies, six VREF strains exhibited synergism with the combination of quinupristin-dalfopristin and doxycycline and three exhibited synergism...
Topics
- Anti-Bacterial Agents
- Bacterial Proteins
- Carbon-Oxygen Ligases
- Drug Synergism
- Enterococcus faecium
- Genotype
- Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections
- Humans
- Microbial Sensitivity Tests
- Time Factors
