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Resistance to cefotaxime and peptidoglycan composition in Enterococcus faecalis are influenced by exogenous sodium chloride.
Microbiology (Reading, England) - 1 Oct 1998
Mainardi Jean-Luc, Billot-Klein Daniele, Coutrot Anne, Legrand Raymond, Schoot Bernard, Gutmann Laurent
Abstract excerpt
The influence of NaCl on the susceptibility of Enterococcus faecalis to cefotaxime was tested with JH2-2, a laboratory strain, and 20 clinical strains grown on tryptic soy agar supplemented with 5% horse blood. Growth with 3% NaCl in the medium resulted in an increase in cefotaxime resistance and the appearance of a heterogeneous resistance phenotype: for the majority of the strains, the MICs of cefotaxime...
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