Temperature Effect on the Susceptibility of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus to Four Different Cephalosporins

Overview

Journal Antimicrob Agents Chemother

Publisher American Society for Microbiology

Specialty Pharmacology

Date 1982 Jan 1

PMID 6919411

Citations 18

Authors

H N Canawati

J L Witte

F L Sapico

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Abstract

Forty isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus were tested for in vitro susceptibility to cephalothin, cefamandole, cefotaxime, and moxalactam, using the disk diffusion and microbroth dilution methods at incubation temperatures of 30 and 35 degrees C. Resistance to all four antibiotics was more clearly evident at an incubation temperature of 30 degrees C.

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