Introduction: The resistance to antimicrobial agents among Staphylococci is an increasing
problem. This has led to renewed interest in the usage of Macrolide-Lincosamide …

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) mortality and morbidity is a world health misery with an approximate
130–150 million chronically HCV tainted and suffering individuals and it initiate critical liver …

Purpose: Clindamycin is commonly used in the treatment of erythromycin resistant
Staphylococcus aureus causing skin and soft tissue infections. In vitro routine tests for …

Background/Aim: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is an important cause
of nosocomial infections worldwide. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of …

This chapter on special phenotypic methods for detecting antibacterial resistance describes
details of tests for detection of high‐level aminoglycoside resistance and acquired …

Clindamycin is one of the important alternative antibiotics in the therapy of Staphylococcus
aureus infections. Clinical failure of clindamycin therapy has been reported due to multiple …

Introduction. Methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is one of the most
common causes of nosocomial infections. One of the potential risk factors for nosocomial …

The D-zone test detects inducible clindamycin resistance in Staphylococcus spp. Two other
methods not described by the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) are …

Objective: This study was undertaken to assess the frequency of the phenotypic expression
of the inducible resistance to clindamycin which was due to the expression of the erm genes …

This study was undertaken to investigate the resistance phenotypes to macrolide-
lincosamide-streptogramin B (MLS B) antibiotics and their associated genotypes in isolates …