Resistance of Peptostreptococcus spp. to macrolides and lincosamides: inducible and constitutive phenotypes.

doi:10.1128/AAC.36.3.662

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Resistance of Peptostreptococcus spp. to macrolides and lincosamides: inducible and constitutive phenotypes.

Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Mar 1992

Reig M, Moreno A, Baquero F

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The activities of erythromycin and clindamycin against 350 Peptostreptococcus strains were studied during a 5-year period (1986 to 1991). In 5.1% of the Peptostreptococcus strains, which presented dissociated resistance (clindamycin MIC, less than or equal to 1 microgram/ml; erythromycin MIC, gre...

Topics

Clindamycin
Drug Resistance, Microbial
Erythromycin
Microbial Sensitivity Tests
Peptostreptococcus
Phenotype

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