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Intensive therapy with ceftobiprole medocaril of experimental foreign-body infection by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Sept 2005
Vaudaux Pierre, Gjinovci Asllan, Bento Manuela, Li Dongmei, Schrenzel Jacques, Lew Daniel P
Abstract excerpt
The therapeutic activity of ceftobiprole medocaril, the water-soluble prodrug of ceftobiprole, was compared to that of vancomycin in a rat tissue cage model of chronic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) foreign-body infection. The MICs and MBCs of ceftobiprole and vancomycin in Mueller-Hinton broth for strain MRGR3 were 1 and 4 and 1 and 2 microg/ml, respectively. In vitro elimination rates of...
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