COMPARISON OF ETEST TO BROTH MICRODILUTION METHOD FOR TESTING STREPTOCOCCUS-PNEUMONIAE SUSCEPTIBILITY TO LEVOFLOXACIN AND 3 MACROLIDES

Authors
GERARDO SH CITRON DM CLAROS MC GOLDSTEIN EJC
Citation
Sh. Gerardo et al., COMPARISON OF ETEST TO BROTH MICRODILUTION METHOD FOR TESTING STREPTOCOCCUS-PNEUMONIAE SUSCEPTIBILITY TO LEVOFLOXACIN AND 3 MACROLIDES, Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 40(10), 1996, pp. 2413-2415
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Pharmacology & Pharmacy",Microbiology
Journal title
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy → ACNP
ISSN journal
00664804
Volume
40
Issue
10
Year of publication
1996
Pages
2413 - 2415
Database
ISI
SICI code
0066-4804(1996)40:10<2413:COETBM>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
When the Etest was compared to broth microdilution for susceptibility testing of Streptococcus pneumoniae, levofloxacin, erythromycin, and p enicillin results correlated for both methods; azithromycin and clarit hromycin showed discrepancies of greater than or equal to 2 dilutions for 95.8% and 31.5% of the isolates, respectively, Levofloxacin was ac tive against 141 of 142 isolates (less than or equal to 2.0 mu g/ml), making it a potentially useful new fluoroquinolone.