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Effects of Storage on Vancomycin and Daptomycin MIC in Susceptible Blood Isolates of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

2012; American Society for Microbiology; Volume: 50; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1128/jcm.01158-12

1098-660X

Franziska Ludwig, Becky Edwards, Timothy Lawes, Ian M. Gould,

Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing

By repeating Etests on 36 blood isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) over 9 months, we explored the effects of isolate storage on vancomycin and daptomycin MICs. We identified overall declines in vancomycin and daptomycin MICs taken from the same isolates at 3-month