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Comparative Study
. 1990 May;34(5):899-900.
doi: 10.1128/AAC.34.5.899.

Percentages and distributions of teicoplanin- and vancomycin-resistant strains among coagulase-negative staphylococci

F W Goldstein  1 , A Coutrot, A Sieffer, J F Acar
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Comparative Study

Percentages and distributions of teicoplanin- and vancomycin-resistant strains among coagulase-negative staphylococci

F W Goldstein et al. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 1990 May.

Abstract

The activities of teicoplanin and vancomycin against 362 coagulase-negative staphylococci were determined by an agar dilution method. At the 4- and 32-micrograms/ml breakpoint levels of the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards, 23.2% of the strains were intermediate and 1.7% were resistant to teicoplanin, in contrast to less than 0.3% intermediate to vancomycin. Resistant strains belonged to the species Staphylococcus epidermidis (74%) and S. haemolyticus (19%).

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