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Incidence of clindamycin resistance in clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus

Author(s) -

Debmita Debdas,

Sangeeta Joshi

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

the journal of infection in developing countries

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.322

H-Index - 49

eISSN - 2036-6590

pISSN - 1972-2680

DOI - 10.3855/jidc.1598

Subject(s) - clindamycin , staphylococcus aureus , incidence (geometry) , microbiology and biotechnology , medicine , antibiotics , biology , bacteria , genetics , physics , optics

Clindamycin is used in Staphylococcal infections and resistance patterns to Clindamycin vary between institutions. Inducible Clindamycin resistance is detected by the CLSI recommended D-test. This study was done to estimate the incidence of constitutive and inducible Clindamycin resistance in our hospital. Three hundred and seventy nine S.aureus isolates from clinical specimens collected over 6 months were tested for Clindamycin resistance using the D-test. Fourteen percent were Clindamycin resistant and among them 43% showed the inducible phenotype. Clindamycin resistance was higher among MRSA isolates (p

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