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ArticleAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy1996

In vitro susceptibility of penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae to levofloxacin, selection of resistant mutants, and time-kill synergy studies of levofloxacin combined with vancomycin, teicoplanin, fusidic acid, and rifampin.

K P Klugman, T Capper, A Bryskier

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Article in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 1996. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Intravitreal triple therapy with vancomycin, ceftazidime, and moxifloxacin for bacterial endophthalmitis: A Twelve-year experience.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

K P KlugmanMRC/SAIMR/WITS Pneumococcal Diseases Research Unit, Department of Medical Microbiology, South African Institute for Medical Research, Johannsburg, South Africa. 174klug@chiron.wits.ac.za
T Capper
A Bryskier
South African Institute for Medical Research · ZA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Among 180 clinical isolates of pneumococci, no strains were found to be resistant to levofloxacin (MIC, > or = 4 micrograms/ml) whereas 9% were resistant to ofloxacin and 7% were resistant to ciprofloxacin. Synergism was demonstrated by time-kill studies in nine of nine strains for the combination of levofloxacin and vancomycin and in six of nine strains for levofloxacin plus teicoplanin. The combinations of levofloxacin with rifampin or fusidic acid were indifferent. Resistant mutants could be selected using incremental concentrations of levofloxacin. For two of nine strains that were initially susceptible to levofloxacin, the MICs reached the resistance range (> or = 4 micrograms/ml). In contrast, ciprofloxacin and ofloxacin selected mutants from the susceptible to the resistant range more frequently (four of six and six of seven strains, respectively). These data argue for further study of levofloxacin against penicillin-resistant pneumococci.

Indexed as

LevofloxacinAnti-Bacterial AgentsDrug SynergismDrug Therapy, CombinationFusidic AcidMutationOfloxacinPenicillin ResistanceRifampinStreptococcus pneumoniaeTeicoplaninVancomycinAnti-Bacterial AgentsFusidic AcidLevofloxacinOfloxacinRifampinTeicoplaninVancomycin

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PMID9124844
PMCPMC163625
OpenAlexW2112259897

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