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3 Biotech. 2014 Feb;4(1):85-89. doi: 10.1007/s13205-013-0133-5. Epub 2013 Apr 02.

Incidence of constitutive and inducible clindamycin resistance among hospital-associated Staphylococcus aureus.

3 Biotech

B Sasirekha, M S Usha, J A Amruta, S Ankit, N Brinda, R Divya

Affiliations

  1. Department of Microbiology, Center for Post Graduate Studies, Jain University, 18/3, 9th Main, Jayanagar 3rd Block, Bangalore, 560011, India. [email protected].
  2. Department of Microbiology, Center for Post Graduate Studies, Jain University, 18/3, 9th Main, Jayanagar 3rd Block, Bangalore, 560011, India.

PMID: 28324465 PMCID: PMC3909568 DOI: 10.1007/s13205-013-0133-5

Abstract

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 mechanisms that confer resistance to macrolides, lincosamides and Streptogramin B (MLS

Keywords: D test; Inducible MLSB phenotype; Inducible clindamycin; Staphylococcus aureus

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