Teicoplanin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococcal bacteraemia in patients with haematological malignancies: a problem of increasing importance
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Emergence of teicoplanin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci.
Over a period of 5 years we have recovered 32 clinical isolates of coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) exhibiting either decreased levels of susceptibility or true resistance to teicoplanin (MICs, 16 to 128 micrograms/ml); these isolates make up 0.55% of the total CoNS isolated by us. Twenty-nine of the strains were also methicillin resistant, and all were susceptible to vancomycin. Fourtee...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
سال: 1997
ISSN: 1460-2091
DOI: 10.1093/jac/40.5.738