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Bactericidal activity of vancomycin, daptomycin, ampicillin and aminoglycosides against vancomycin-resistant
E Bingen1, N Lambert-Zechovsky, R Leclercq
1Laboratoire de Microbiologie, Hôpital Robert Debré Université Paris VII, France.
The Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
|November 1, 1990
Abstract:
Daptomycin, vancomycin, ampicillin and aminoglycosides, alone or in combination, were tested for their bactericidal activity against 15 isolates of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium from immunocompromised children. The kill-kinetic studies at clinically achievable concentrations demonstrated that daptomycin alone or in combination with ampicillin had the greatest bactericidal activity.