BACKGROUND Clindamycin is a frequently used antimicrobial therapeutic medicine used for the treatment of skin and soft tissue infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus strains. Resistance to this antibiotic is either constitutive or inducible. Constitutive resistance to clindamycin could be detected by standard susceptibility testing methods. Inducible clindamycin resistance could not be detec...

Background. Current susceptibility testing recommendations for β-hemolytic streptococci outline testing for clindamycin resistance, including inducible resistance by a positive D-zone phenotype. However, few studies describe the prevalence of clindamycin resistance among invasive GCS and GGS organisms. This study aims to describe the prevalence of clindamycin resistance among GCS/GGS compared w...

Background. Current susceptibility testing recommendations for β-hemolytic streptococci outline testing for clindamycin resistance, including inducible resistance by a positive D-zone phenotype. However, few studies describe the prevalence of clindamycin resistance among invasive GCS and GGS organisms. This study aims to describe the prevalence of clindamycin resistance among GCS/GGS compared w...

In order to identify the alternative effective chemotherapeutic agents for murine babesiosis, some selected drugs were examined for their efficacy against protozoan infection in the mouse-Babesia rodhaini (B. rodhaini) model. Clindamycin was not completely effective for elimination of parasites in a dose of 50 mg or 100 mg/kg BW/day b.i.d. but effective to prolong the life span of hosts, while ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the rates of penicillin, clindamycin and erythromycin resistance and the serotype distribution among isolates of group B streptococcus (GBS) obtained from pregnant women at the University Hospital of Bern in Switzerland. METHODS We prospectively collected screening samples for GBS colonisation at the University Women's Hospital Bern, Switzerland, between March 2009 and A...

Thirty-five patients with a variety of serious infections caused by anaerobic bacteria responded to clindamycin. Cure was achieved in 27 of the 32 patients with pleuropulmonary and intra-abdominal infections. Mean serum concentrations of clindamycin for the 8 h after intramuscular administration of clindamycin in these patients were at least 2.5 times the minimal inhibitory concentration of cli...

To enhance the antimicrobial spectrum of the quinolones against anaerobic organisms and gram-positive bacteria, we investigated in two studies the parenteral combinations of ciprofloxacin (200 mg) and ofloxacin (200 mg) with metronidazole (500 mg) or clindamycin (600 mg) and the oral combinations of enoxacin (400 mg) and fleroxacin (400 mg) with metronidazole (400 mg), clindamycin (300 mg), or ...

Clindamycin palmitate and potassium phenoxymethyl penicillin were evaluated in 103 children with upper respiratory illnesses and pharyngeal group A streptococci, from November 1970 to July 1971. The children were assigned randomly by weight to one of the antibiotic regimens given orally for 10 days. Clindamycin palmitate and potassium phenoxymethyl penicillin dosages were 75 and 125 mg, respect...