Drug Resistance of Staphylococci

Megumi Kono, Tokuhiko Kasuga, Susumu Mitsuhashi

Japanese Journal of Microbiology · 1966 · 14 citations · 2 references

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ABSTRACT Examination of cross resistance to macrolide antibiotics in erythromycin resistant staphylococcal strains isolated from clinical sources in the United States showed that there were two types of cross resistance, group A (13.4%) and group C (86.6%). Group A possessed multiple resistance to the macrolide antibiotics, erythromycin, oleandomycin, leucomycin and spiramycin, and was also resistant to lincomycin. In group C, resistance to erythromycin alone or to both erythromycin and oleandomycin could be induced by exposure to erythromycin.

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