Article
Antibacterial efficacy of nisin against multidrug-resistant Gram-positive pathogens.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Mar 1998
Severina E, Severin A, Tomasz A
Abstract excerpt
The rapid spread of multidrug-resistant bacterial pathogens necessitates the search for alternative antibacterial agents. We examined the efficacy of the antibiotic nisin against 56 multidrug-resistant isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae, 33 Staphylococcus aureus and 29 vancomycin-resistant Ente...
Topics
- Anti-Bacterial Agents
- Coagulase
- DNA, Bacterial
- DNA, Recombinant
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Drug Resistance, Multiple
- Enterococcus faecalis
- Enterococcus faecium
- Gram-Positive Bacteria
- Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections
- Humans
- Methicillin Resistance
- Microbial Sensitivity Tests
- Mutation
- Nisin
- Penicillin Resistance
- Species Specificity