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Synergism Between Vancomycin and Gentamicin or Tobramycin for Methicillin-susceptible and Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Strains

Overview
Journal Antimicrob Agents Chemother
Publisher American Society for Microbiology
Specialty Pharmacology
Date 1982 Nov 1
PMID 6924825
Citations 26
Authors
C Watanakunakorn
J C Tisone
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Abstract

By the time-kill curve method, the combinations of vancomycin-gentamicin and vancomycin-tobramycin were shown to be synergistic against a majority of methicillin-susceptible and -resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus.

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