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Antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of meticillin-susceptible and -resistant Staphylococcus aureus: focus on daptomycin minimum inhibitory concentrations at a tertiary care centre in Mumbai, India.
International journal of antimicrobial agents - 1 Sept 2010
D'Souza Namita, Shetty Anjali, Mehta Ajita, Rodrigues Camilla
Abstract excerpt
In this study, daptomycin minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) for Staphylococcus aureus isolates were determined using Etest strips and were correlated with staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) types and Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) gene positivity. In total, 60 meticillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) and 60 meticillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) isolates from clinical samples were subjected...
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