You are here

Article Text

Article menu

Download PDFPDF

Articles
Combination of minocycline and rifampicin against methicillin- and gentamicin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
  1. E Yourassowsky,
  2. MP Van Der Linden,
  3. MJ Lismont,
  4. F Crokaert
  1. Hôpital Universitaire Brugmann, Service de Biologie Clinique, 1020 Bruxelles, Belgique

    Abstract

    Methicillin- and gentamicin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus may remain sensitive to minocycline and to rifampicin. A study of growth curves has shown that at inhibitory concentrations (0·4 μg/ml), minocycline prevents the development of mutants resistant to rifampicin.

    http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jcp.34.5.559

    Statistics from Altmetric.com

      Request Permissions

      If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.