Minimizing quinolone resistance: are the new agents more or less likely to cause resistance?
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Minimizing quinolone resistance: are the new agents more or less likely to cause resistance?
The introduction of oral antimicrobial agents with broad-spectrum activity extending to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other multiply antibiotic-resistant pathogens made the fluoroquinolones an attractive choice for empirical therapy for an extensive range of conditions. As a consequence there has been heavy and indiscriminate use of these agents ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0305-7453,1460-2091
DOI: 10.1093/jac/45.6.719