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Usefulness of various antibiotics against Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare, measured by their mutant prevention concentration.
International journal of antimicrobial agents - 1 Mar 2005
Rodríguez J C, Cebrián L, López M, Ruiz M, Royo G
Abstract excerpt
This study looked the selection of resistant mutants in Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare during antibiotic treatment. The mutant prevention concentration (MPC) of 20 Mycobacterium avium and 12 Mycobacterium intracellulare isolates was determined. Fifty percent of Mycobacterium avium strains had MPC (MPC50) values lower than 16, 64, 40, 55 and 60 mg/L for rifabutin, rifampicin, ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin and...
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