In-vitro susceptibility of salmonellae to antimicrobial agents36609
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Goossens,H. [1]; R. Vanhoof [2]; P De Mol [3]; Grados,O. [4]; Ghysels,G. [5]; Butzler,J.P. [6]Mots-clés
Résumé:
The minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) of various antimicrobial drugs, for 667 strains of Salmonella, isolated in three different continents of the world, were determined: 17 antibiotics were tested against 506 randomly selected and 161 chloramphenicol-resistant strains. The activity of the monobactam aztreonam against these organisms was in general equal or superior to that observed with the third-generation cephalosporins, cefotaxime and ceftazidime. Furthermore aztreonam and cefotaxime exhibited uniform and high activity against all the salmonella strains tested, irrespective of the…