Comparison of susceptibility of Neisseria meningitidis
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When prevalence of meningococcal disease is increased contacts of cases may require chemoprophylaxis, and sodium sulphadiazine is the drug of choice. However, increasing numbers of meningococci are resistant to sulphonamides (Fallon, 1975, 1977) andmany alternative chemoprophylactic agents are ineffectual. Sodium fusidate is active against a few strains of meningococci in vitro (Barber and Waterworth, 1962; Godtfredsen et al., 1962). We report an in-vitro study of the susceptibility of 100 strains of Neisseria meningitidis to sodium fusidate and sodium sulphadiazine.
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تاریخ انتشار 2005