Effect of Clavulanic Acid on the Minimum Inhibitory Concentration of Benzylpenicillin, Ampicillin, Carbenicillin, or Cephalothin Against Clinical Isolates Resistant to Beta-lactam Antibiotics

Overview

Journal Antimicrob Agents Chemother

Publisher American Society for Microbiology

Specialty Pharmacology

Date 1979 Feb 1

PMID 311619

Citations 10

Authors

L Dumon

P Adriaens

J Anne

H EYSSEN

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Abstract

The effect of clavulanic acid on the minimum inhibitory concentration of benzylpenicillin, ampicillin, carbenicillin, or cephalothin against 353 clinical isolates of penicillin- and/or cephalothin-resistant strains was estimated.

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