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Persistence of Resistant<i>Staphylococcus epidermidis</i>after Single Course of Clarithromycin
1 Sept 2005
Abstract excerpt
We examined how a common therapy that includes clarithromycin affects normally colonizing Staphylococcus epidermidis. Samples from the nostrils of 5 patients receiving therapy were collected before, immediately after, 1 year after, and 4 years after treatment. From each patient and sample, S. epidermidis strains were isolated and analyzed for clarithromycin susceptibility and presence of the erm(C) gene. We show...
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