Synergism Between Vancomycin and Gentamicin or Tobramycin for Methicillin-Susceptible and Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strains
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- 1 November 1982
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
- Vol. 22 (5) , 903-905
- https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.22.5.903
Abstract
By the time-kill curve method, the combinations of vancomycin-gentamicin and vancomycin-tobramycin were shown to be synergistic against a majority of methicillin-susceptible and -resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus.Keywords
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