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Case Reports
. 2005 Oct;43(10):5285-7.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.43.10.5285-5287.2005.

Development of Daptomycin resistance in vivo in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

M K Hayden  1 , K Rezai, R A Hayes, K Lolans, J P Quinn, R A Weinstein
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Development of Daptomycin resistance in vivo in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

M K Hayden et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2005 Oct.

Abstract

Daptomycin is a new lipopeptide antibiotic that is rapidly bactericidal against Staphylococcus aureus. We report daptomycin resistance and treatment failure in 2 patients with osteomyelitis due to methicillin-resistant S. aureus. Disk diffusion susceptibility testing failed to detect resistance. Daptomycin at high concentration retained bactericidal activity against resistant isolates.

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FIG. 1.
Time-kill experiments with representative daptomycin-susceptible and daptomycin-resistant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates. (A) Daptomycin-susceptible isolate from patient 1. (B) Daptomycin-resistant isolate from patient 1. (C) Daptomycin-susceptible isolate from patient 2. (D) Daptomycin-resistant isolate from patient 2. Abbreviations: C, Growth control without daptomycin; 1× MIC, 2× MIC, and 4× MIC, daptomycin concentrations tested were equal to, twice, and four times higher than the MIC of daptomycin for the isolate, respectively.
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