Successful treatment of staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome with linezolid: a case report and in vitro evaluation of the production of toxic shock syndrome toxin type 1 in the presence of antibiotics.

Figure 1. Antibiotic effects on the growth of Staphylococcus aureus and the production of toxic shock syndrome toxin (TSST)–1. The patient’s strain of S. aureus was cultured in the absence or presence of antibiotics at the indicated final concentrations. Antibiotics were added 4 h after initiation of cultures. Bacterial growth (A) and TSST-1 production (B) were measured by plate counts and ELISA assay, respectively. Data are from 1 representative experiment of 3 and represent the mean of duplicate measurements SD. CFU, colony-forming units. www2.infinit.com/cgi-bin/imprimer.cgi?idp1 48834. Accessed 24 January 2006.