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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 Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis isolates. The test strains represented a large variety of clonal types (as...
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