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 and objectives: macrolide, lincosamide and streptogramin b (mlsb) antimicrobial agents are widely used in the treatment of staphylococcal infection. clindamycin is the medicine of choice for some staphylococcal infections, particularly skin and soft tissues infections. erythromycin and clindamycin are two distinct classes of antimicrobial agents which inhibit protein synthesis in bac...

background and objective: the d-test is performed by placing clindamycin and erythromycin impregnated disks at a standard distance on the agar plate then looking for the flattening of inhibition zone around the clindamycin disk. a positive d-test indicates clindamycin inducible resistance and also predicts treatment failure possibility of this antibiotic in clinic. prevalence of staphylococcal ...

background and objectives: staphylococcus aureus is an important agent in hospital and community-associated infections, causing high morbidity and mortality. introduction of the new antimicrobial classes for this pathogen has been usually followed by the emergence of resistant strains through multiple mechanisms. for instance, resistance to clindamycin (cli) can be constitutive or inducible. in...

background and objectives: staphylococcus aureus is an important cause of nosocomial and community-acquired infections in every region of the world. clindamycin is one of the alternative agents used to treat s. aureus infections and accurate identification of clindamycin resistance is important to prevent therapeutic failure. unfortunately, inducible clindamycin resistance is not detected by st...

background and objectives: accurate designation of antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of the infecting microorganisms is an important crucial factor in making appropriate therapeutic decisions. macrolide, lincosamide and streptogramin b antibiotics are in a family, reserved as an alternative approach in treatment of resistant gram positive cocci. amongst them, clindamycin has been considered ...

background staphylococcus aureus is a common pathogen in hospitals and communities. antibiotic resistance is a major public health problem. objectives the aim of this study was the determination of antimicrobial susceptibility patterns and to perform molecular detection of macrolide and lincosamide-resistance genes in clinical s. aureus isolates from kerman, iran. conclusions a high prevalence ...