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Inducible clindamycin resistance in staphylococcus aureus /

Doaa Mahdy Mohamed Mahmoud Elwakil

Inducible clindamycin resistance in staphylococcus aureus / مقاومة الكلينداميسين المستحدثة فى المكورات العنقودية الذهبية Doaa Mahdy Mohamed Mahmoud Elwakil ; Supervised Azza Esam Eldin Badr , Nadia Hafez Salah Eldin Auda - Cairo : Doaa Mahdy Mohamed Mahmoud Elwakil , 2012 - 149 P. : charts , facsimiles ; 25cm

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Staphylococcus aureus is an important cause of nosocomial and community-associated infections in every region of the world. Clindamycin is one of the alternative agents used to treat S. aureus infections and accurate identification of CL resistance is important to prevent therapeutic failure. Unfortunately, inducible CL resistance is not detected by standard susceptibility tests



D-zone test Inducible CL resistance S. aureus