Incidence of Constitutive and Inducible Clindamycin Resistance in Clinical Isolates of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Without the double-disk test, all the Staphylococcus aureus isolates with inducible clindamycin resistance would have been misclassified as clindamycin susceptible, resulting in an underestimated clindamycin resistance rate. Clindamycin resistance rates may vary by geographic region and methicillin...

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Main Authors: Monthon LERTCANAWANICHAKUL, Kittisak CHAWAWISIT, Apinya CHOOPAN, Krisanawan NAKBUD, Kung DAWVEERAKUL
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Walailak University 2011-11-01
Series:Walailak Journal of Science and Technology
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Online Access:http://wjst.wu.ac.th/index.php/wjst/article/view/95