Mycobacterium chelonei Infection: Successful Treatment Based on a Radiometric Susceptibility Test

Open Access

1 April 1977

journal article
case report
Published by American Society for Microbiology in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Vol. 11 (4), 763-764
https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.11.4.763

Abstract

A patient with Mycobacterium chelonei infection was treated with erythromycin stearate and streptomycin. The choice of antibiotics was based on a rapid radiometric susceptibility test developed in our laboratory.

Keywords

TREATMENT
CHELONEI INFECTION
RADIOMETRIC SUSCEPTIBILITY TEST
STEARATE
ERYTHROMYCIN
ANTIBIOTICS

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

Rapid Radiometric Method of Testing Susceptibility of Mycobacteria and Slow-Growing Fungi to Antimicrobial Agents
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 1974
MYCOBACTERIA - LABORATORY METHODS FOR TESTING DRUG SENSITIVITY AND RESISTANCE
1963

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