[Increase in gentamicin- and tobramycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from hospital patients (author's transl)].

  • 12 September 1981
    • journal article
    • abstracts
    • Vol. 10  (32) , 2645-6, 2651
Abstract
The increase, during a 5-year period (1975-79), in staphylococcal infections resistant to gentamicin and tobramycin has been evaluated in various units of a large Parisian hospital. Out of 3,788 infections, 539 were due to staphylococci that were resistant to gentamicin, tobramycin and kanamycin (GKTo phenotype). All isolates were methicillin-resistant strains, and 53% belonged to serotype 18. Depending upon individual hospital units two patterns of resistance were observed: a progressive one extending to 1979, with an annual average of 9% resistant strains, and a rapid one, which culminated in 1978 with 34% resistant strains.

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