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Distribution of biotypes and antimicrobial susceptibility of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans
M J Avila-Campos1, M A Carvalho, F Zelante
1Department of Microbiology, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.
Oral Microbiology and Immunology
|December 1, 1995
Abstract:
Eighty isolates of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans from 30 Brazilian periodontitis patients were examined to determine the distribution of biotypes and in vitro antimicrobial susceptibility. Seventy-seven percent of the isolates belonged to biotype X. All A. actinomycetemcomitans isolates were susceptible to cefoxitin, imipenem and tetracycline.