Use of the D test method to detect inducible clindamycin resistance in coagulase negative staphylococci (CoNS)

According to the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards (NCCLS, 2004), a method to evaluate the inducible clindamycin resistance in accordance with an approach of the disks of erythromycin and clindamycin - the D test - has been reported. We analyzed the performance of this method in 2...

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Main Authors: Leandro Reus Rodrigues Perez, Juliana Caierão, Ana Lúcia Souza Antunes, Pedro Alves d'Azevedo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier
Series:Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702007000200002&lng=en&tlng=en