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Comparative time-kill study of doxycycline, tigecycline, cefazolin and vancomycin against several clones of Staphylococcus aureus.
Current clinical pharmacology - 1 Nov 2013
Herrera Melina, Mobilia Liliana, Posse Graciela, Limansky Adriana, Ballerini Viviana, Bantar Carlos
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BACKGROUND: We present herein, a comparative study assessing the bactericidal kinetics of tigecycline, doxycycline, cefazolin and vancomycin against several methicllin-susceptible (MSSA) and -resistant (MRSA) Staphylococcus aureus isolates recovered from patients of 24 different cities in Argentina. METHODS: After genotypic characterization, 20 strains (10 MRSA and 10 MSSA) were selected for time-kill studies....
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