Screening for penicillin tolerance in viridans streptococci by a simple disk method
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Tolerance to penicillin in streptococci of viridans group.
Tolerance to penicillin was investigated in 40 isolates of optochin-resistant, alpha-haemolytic streptococci. Thirteen strains exhibited tolerance to penicillin (MBC:MIC ratio greater than or equal to 32) when stationary phase inocula were used, but only seven strains retained the tolerance phenotype in experiments with logarithmic phase inocula. There was a striking association between toleran...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Microbiology
سال: 1982
ISSN: 0095-1137,1098-660X
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.16.4.744-746.1982