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Antimicrobial susceptibility of Brazilian Clostridium difficile strains determined by agar dilution and disk diffusion

Braz. j. infect. dis; 20 (5), 2016
Abstract Clostridium difficile is a leading cause of diarrhea in hospitalized patients worldwide. While metronidazole and vancomycin are the most prescribed antibiotics for the treatment of this infection, teicoplanin, tigecycline and nitazoxanide are alternatives drugs. Knowledge on the antibiotic susce...

Glicopéptidos en el tratamiento de infecciones por microorganismo gram positivos
Glycopeptides in the treatment of gram positive infections

Rev. chil. infectol; 17 (supl.1), 2000
Glycopeptides have become a very important class of antibiotics because its widespread usage, the emergence of resistance to this antibiotics and need for new antibiotics to treat serious resistant gram positive infections. We discuss the general characteristics of this class of antibiotics, resistance t...

Estudo da sensibilidade de Staphylococcus sp. e Enterococcus sp. à teicoplanina e à vancomicina
Study of the susceptibility of Staphylococcus sp. and Enterococcus sp. to teicoplanin and vancomycin

Objetivo. Avaliar a sensibilidade de Enterococcus e Staphylococcus à teicoplanina e à vancomicina. Métodos. Foram estudadas 150 cepas de Enterococcus e 450 de Staphylococcus (298 Staphylococcus aureus e 152 de coagulase negativas) isoladas de três hospitais brasileiros. As CIMs foram determinadas uti...

Avaliaçäo da sensibilidade a teicoplanina e vancomicina, em Staphylococcus aureus e estafilococos coagulase negativos
Evaluation of teicoplanin and vancomycin susceptibility in Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococci

Membros do gênero staphylococcus säo os patógenos mais comuns encontrados no ambiente hospitalar e vêm adquirindo resistência múltipla aos antimicrobianos. OBJETIVO. Avaliar as atividades inibitórias in vitro da teicoplanina e da vancomicina frente a 195 amostras de estafilococos isolados de proce...